bàrd

See also: bard, bárd, and Bård

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /paːrʃt̪/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardo-s (compare Welsh bardd, Breton barz).

Noun

bàrd m (genitive singular bàird, plural bàird or bàrda or bàrdan)

  1. rhymer, poet, bard
Declension
Indefinite Declension of bàrd
Singular Plural
Nominative bàrd bàird
Vocative a bhàird a bhàrda
Genitive bàird bhàrd
Dative bàrd bàird
Definite Declension of am bàrd
Singular Plural
Nominative am bàrd na bàird
Genitive a’ bhàird nam bàrd
Dative a’ bhàrd na bàird
Descendants

Derived terms
  • bana-bhàrd f (“poetess”)
  • bàrdan m (“poetaster”)
  • bàrd-cluiche m, bàrd-dealbh-cluiche m (“dramatist”)
  • bàrd-dhàn m (“poetry, rhyme”)
  • barr-bhàrd m (“chief poet; poet laureate; graduate in poetry”)
  • ceanna-bhàrd m (“head bard”)
  • prìomh-bhàrd m (“chief bard or poet, poet laureate”)

Noun

bàrd m

  1. dyke, fence
  2. park
  3. garrison
  4. corporation

Noun

bàrd m

  1. (Strathtummel, Badenoch) meadow, land on the edge of a river

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
bàrdbhàrd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “bard” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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