búaid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• (archaic) boid

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰoudʰi (“victory”); compare Welsh budd (“profit”)

Noun

búaid n (i-stem, nominative plural búada, genitive singular búaide)

1. victory, triumph
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43^b7

     "a mbuaid" glosses triumphus

2. special quality, gift, virtue
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^c20

     búaid precepte

     the gift of teaching

3. profit, advantage, benefit

Usage notes

Used attributively in the genitive singular to mean victorious, triumphal, pre-eminent, precious.

Descendants

• Irish: Template:l/ga

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language