bòrd

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

    From Middle Irish bord (“edge, side, border, brink; board, table; seat, bench”)[1] (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

    Mutation of bòrd
    radical lenition
    bòrd bhòrd

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    References

    1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
    3. ^ Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
    4. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh

    Further reading

    • Edward Dwelly (1911), “bòrd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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