bàrd

See also: bard, bárd, and Bård

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːrʃt̪/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardo-s (compare Welsh bardd, Breton barz).

Noun

bàrd m (genitive singular bàird, plural bàird or bàrda or bàrdan)

1. rhymer, poet, bard

Descendants

• → English: bard

Derived terms

• bana-bhàrd f (“poetess”)
• bàrd-cluiche m, bàrd-dealbh-cluiche m (“dramatist”)
• bàrd-dhàn m (“poetry, rhyme”)
• bàrdan m (“poetaster”)
• barr-bhàrd m (“chief poet; poet laureate; graduate in poetry”)
• ceanna-bhàrd m (“head bard”)
• prìomh-bhàrd m (“chief bard or poet, poet laureate”)

 

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bàrd m

1. dyke, fence
2. park
3. garrison
4. corporation

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bàrd m

1. (Strathtummel, Badenoch) meadow, land on the edge of a river

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
bàrd	bhàrd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàrd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language