bòrd

See also: bord, Bord, borð, bórd, and börd

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish bord (“edge, side, border, brink; board, table; seat, bench”) (compare Irish bord, Manx boayrd), borrowed from Old English bord (“plank, table”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [b̊ɔːɹʃd̪̊], /pɔːɾʃt̪/

Noun

bòrd m (genitive singular bùird, plural bùird)

  1. table (furniture)
  2. plank, board
  3. board (of directors, etc.)
  4. (nautical) deck (of a ship)

Derived terms

Verb

bòrd (past bhòrd, future bòrdaidh, verbal noun bòrdadh, past participle bòrdte)

  1. (nautical) tack
  2. board (a ship, etc.)
    Bhòrd iad an long. ― They boarded the ship.

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

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bòrd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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