cairde

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɾˠdʲə/^[1]}
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːɾˠdʲə/

From Old Irish cairde (“pact, convenant, peace”), a special use of cara (“friendship”), related to Etymology 2 below.^[2]

cairde m (genitive singular cairde)

1. respite

   Synonym: spás

   gan chairde ― without respite

2. (business) credit

   Synonym: creidmheas

   ar cairde ― on credit

3. delay

   Synonym: moill

• cairdeach

Compare Manx caarjyn, Scottish Gaelic càirdean.

• cáirde (dated)

cairde m pl

1. plural of cara

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar͈ʲdʲə/

cairde

1. nominative/vocative/accusative/genitive plural of cara

From carae +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key):

cairde f (genitive cairdi, nominative plural cairdi)

1. covenant
   • 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. 91^c1

     No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.

     I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand that, whether it had departed or not.

• Irish: cairde

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cairde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language