laoidh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish láed, laíd, from Old Irish loíd (“poem, song”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *loyd-eh₂, from the root *leyd- (“to let; to let go, release”).[2] The semantic evolution would be “to release” → “to set in motion” → “to incite” → “to praise, sing praises of”.[3]

Noun

laoidh m (plural laoidhean)

  1. A hymn.
  2. A sacred poem.

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “laoidh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, pages 223–head
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “loydā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 246
  3. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “lei̯d-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 402–403
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