bòrd

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

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish bord (edge, side, border, brink; board, table; seat, bench) (compare Irish bord, Manx boayrd), borrowed from Old English bord (plank, table).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [b̊ɔːɹʃd̪̊], /pɔːɾʃt̪/

Noun

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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

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Verb

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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

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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

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