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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish ord, ordd, from Proto-Celtic *ordos (compare Welsh gordd).
Pronunciation
Noun
òrd m (genitive singular ùird, plural ùird or òrdan)
- hammer
- mar fhuaim ùird ― like the noise of a hammer
- dog-head of a gun, the part of a gunlock from which the flint strikes fire
- piece, fragment, chunk
Gearr 'n a òrdan e.- Cut it in pieces.
- stub
- mallet, mall
- cut, cutting
- òrd éisg ― a cut or slice of fish
- sledgehammer
- a short length of string
Derived terms
See also
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| òrd |
n-òrd |
h-òrd |
t-òrd
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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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Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “òrd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ord(d)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language