bòrd

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See also: bord, Bord, borð, bórd, and börd

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish bord (edge, side, border, brink; board, table; seat, bench) (compare Irish bord, Manx boayrd), borrowed from Old English bord (plank, table).

Pronunciation

Noun

bòrd m (genitive singular bùird, plural bùird)

  1. table (furniture)
  2. plank, board
  3. board (of directors, etc.)
  4. (nautical) deck (of a ship)

Derived terms

Verb

bòrd (past bhòrd, future bòrdaidh, verbal noun bòrdadh, past participle bòrdte)

  1. (nautical) tack
  2. board (a ship, etc.)
    Bhòrd iad an long.They boarded the ship.

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
bòrd bhòrd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bòrd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language