From Old Irish cerd,[2] from Proto-Celtic *kerdā, from Proto-Indo-European *kerd- (“craft”). Doublet of ceird.
ceard m (genitive singular cearda, nominative plural cearda)
- artisan
ceard f (genitive singular ceirde, nominative plural ceirdeanna)
- Alternative form of ceird (“trade, craft”)
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 217, page 111
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cerd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language