bàs

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bas"

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish bás, from Old Irish bás, from Proto-Celtic *bāstom, from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go”) or *(s)gʷes- (“to extinguish”); compare the verb baid (“to die”). Cognates include Irish bás and Manx baase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːs̪/
• Hyphenation: bàs

Noun

bàs m (genitive singular bàis, plural bàsan)

1. death, demise (particularly of an animal)

Usage notes

• Many speakers would only use this term to refer to animal death, with caochladh or siubhal preferred for people.

Synonyms

• caochladh
• siubhal

Derived terms

• anart-bàis
• bàsaich
• campa bàis
• iomradh-bàis

See also

• marbh

Mutation

Mutation of bàs

radical	lenition
bàs	bhàs

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàs”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Colin Mark (2003) “bàs”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 63
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language