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From Old Irish cerd,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kerdā, from the root *kerd- (“craft”). Doublet of ceard.
ceird f (genitive singular ceirde, nominative plural ceirdeanna)
- trade, craft; occupation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cerd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 82, page 34
