buird
See also: bùird
Manx
Noun
Mutation
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English bord (“board, slab; table; boat; shield”), from Old English bord (“board; plank; table; shield; deck; ship; boundary”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). Cognate with English board.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Shetlandic" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bøːrd/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Central" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /beːrd/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Donegal" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bi(ː)rd/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Caithness" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /b(j)uːrd/
Noun
buird (plural buirds)
- board (relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making)
- 1847, James Paterson, The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire, page 90:
- A briest like a buird, and a back like a door.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- table
- 1877, Alex G. Murdoch, The Laird's Lykewake and Other Poems[1], London, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Simpkin, Marshal, & Co.; John Menzies & Co,, Bring the Bodie Ben, page 183:
- They brocht him ben, an' sat him doun before a weel-spread buird,
- They brought him in, and sat him down before a well-spread table,
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