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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *boudi (“victory”).[1]
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 gains victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).
- 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. 11a6
Níba unus gébas a mbúaid húaibsi.- It will not be one of you that will gain the victory.
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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búaidN, bóid, búaith
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búaidN, bóid, búaith
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búaideL
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Vocative
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búaidN, bóid, búaith
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búaidN, bóid, búaith
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búaideL
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Accusative
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búaidN, bóid, búaith
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búaidN, bóid, búaith
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búaideL
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Genitive
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búadoH, búadaH, búade
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búadoH, búadaH, búade
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búaideN
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Dative
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búaidL, bóid, búaith
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búaidib
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búaidib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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búaid
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búaid pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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mbúaid
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bowdi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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