búaid
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *boudi (“victory”) (compare Welsh budd (“profit”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰówdʰi (“victory”).
Pronunciation
Noun
búaid n (genitive búaide, nominative plural búada)
- victory, triumph
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11a4
- Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.
- All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43b7
- a mbuaid glosses triumphus
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11a4
- special quality, gift, virtue
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27c20
- búaid precepte
- the gift of teaching
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27c20
- profit, advantage, benefit
Usage notes
Used attributively in the genitive singular to mean victorious, triumphal, pre-eminent, precious.
Inflection
Neuter i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | búaidN, bóid, búaith | búaidN, bóid, búaith | búaideL |
Vocative | búaidN, bóid, búaith | búaidN, bóid, búaith | búaideL |
Accusative | búaidN, bóid, búaith | búaidN, bóid, búaith | búaideL |
Genitive | búadoH, búadaH, búade | búadoH, búadaH, búade | búaideN |
Dative | búaidL, bóid, búaith | búaidib | búaidib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
búaid | búaid pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
mbúaid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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