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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)
- table (furniture)
- plank, board
- board (of directors, etc.)
- (nautical) deck (of a ship)
Derived terms
Verb
bòrd (past bhòrd, future bòrdaidh, verbal noun bòrdadh, past participle bòrdte)
- (nautical) tack
- board (a ship, etc.)
- Bhòrd iad an long. ― They boarded the ship.
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| bòrd |
bhòrd
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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
- 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