bád
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bad"
Irish
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish bát (compare Scottish Gaelic bàta, Manx baatey), borrowed from Old English bāt.
Usage notes
- Although bád is grammatically masculine, it is used with feminine pronouns; compare the use of she to refer to boats in English.
Declension
Derived terms
- bád canála (“canal boat”)
- bád guail (“collier”)
- bád iascaireachta (“fishing boat”)
- bád rotha (“paddleboat”)
- bádóir (“boatman”)
- báidín (“dinghy; canoe”)
- luasbhád (“speedboat”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bád”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bát”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Greene, D. (1973) “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82
Alternative forms
- bádhad (obsolete)
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