búaid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• (archaic) boid

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bowdi (“victory”) (compare Welsh budd (“profit”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰówdʰi (“victory”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /buːa̯ðʲ/

Noun

búaid n (genitive búaide, nominative plural búada)

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.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: bua
• Scottish Gaelic: buaidh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
búaid	búaid pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbúaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language