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English
Etymology
From Middle English gedde, from Old Norse gedda (“pike”), cognate with Icelandic gedda (“pike”), Danish gedde (“pike”).
Noun
ged (plural geds)
- (UK, dialect or heraldry) The pike or luce.
- (Scotland) A greedy person
1808, John Jamieson, A Dictionary of the Scottish Language:He's a perfect ged for silver.
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ged c (singular definite geden, plural indefinite geder)
- goat (animal)
Inflection
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
According to Ó Maolalaigh, from delenition of early modern (originally copular) gidh, giodh before dentals (< eg. giodh do-bheir ‘though he gives’) or from early modern gé do before compound verbs in do- (gé do-ní ‘though he does’) or in the past tense and conditional mood (eg. gé do chumadar ‘although they made’, gé do bheannaigh ‘though he blessed’, ge d’fhosgail ‘though he opened’).[1] MacBain explains it as a contraction of ge + ta.[2] Ultimately from Old Irish cía (“though”) or cid (“though … is”).
Pronunciation
Conjunction
ged
- although, though
Cha toil leis an leabhar, ged a bha e còrdadh ri a bhean gu dearbh.- He doesn't like the book, although his wife really enjoyed it.
Thiginn a steach a rithist ged a chuirteadh a mach mi.- I would come in again though I were put out.
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References
- ^ R. Ó Maolalaigh (2023) “An Old Gaelic conjunction rediscovered: Old Gaelic ceni, Scottish Gaelic gar an and related concessive conjunctions in Gaelic”, in North American Journal of Celtic Studies, volume 7, number 1, →DOI, pages 1-87
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “ged”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 192
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
Volapük
Noun
ged (nominative plural geds)
- grey
Declension
declension of ged
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms
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