bíad

See also: biad

Old Irish

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

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.

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

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