bíad

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From earlier dissyllabic bïad, from Proto-Celtic *biyatom. Cognate with Welsh bwyd.

Noun

bíad n (genitive biid or biith, nominative plural bíada)

food
- 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. 6^c7
  Léic úait inna bíada milsi et tomil innahí-siu do·mmeil do chenél arnáp hésom con·éit détso.
  Put away from you sg the sweet foods, and consume those that your race consumes, so that it may not be he who is indulgent to you.
- 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. 18^a10
  Ní tormult far mbíad ꝉ for n-étach.
  I have not used up your pl food or your clothing.

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bíad^N	bíad^N	bíad^L, bíada
Vocative	bíad^N	bíad^N	bíad^L, bíada
Accusative	bíad^N	bíad^N	bíad^L, bíada
Genitive	bïid^L, bïith^L	bíad	bíad^N
Dative	bïud^L	bíadaib	bíadaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

bánbiad

Descendants

Irish: bia
Manx: bee
Scottish Gaelic: biadh

Etymology 2

Verb

·bíad

Alternative form of ·bïad

Mutation

Mutation of *bíad*
radical	lenition	nasalization
bíad	bíad pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbíad

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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