bàrd

See also: bard, bárd, and Bård

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /paːrˠʃt̪/
  • Hyphenation: bàrd

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (compare Welsh bardd, Breton barz).

Noun

bàrd m (genitive singular bàird, plural bàird or bàrda or bàrdan)

  1. rhymer, poet, bard
Declension
Declension of bàrd (type I masculine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative bàrd bàird
Genitive bàird bhàrd
Dative bàrd bàird; bàrdaibh*
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (am) bàrd (na) bàird
Genitive (a') bhàird (nam) bàrd
Dative (a') bhàrd (na) bàird; bàrdaibh*
Vocative (a) bhàird (a) bhàrda

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Declension of bàrd (type I masculine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative bàrd bàrda
Genitive bàird bhàrda
Dative bàrd bàrda; bàrdaibh*
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (am) bàrd (na) bàrda
Genitive (a') bhàird (nam) bàrda
Dative (a') bhàrd (na) bàrda; bàrdaibh*
Vocative (a) bhàird (a) bhàrda

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Declension of bàrd (type I masculine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative bàrd bàrdan
Genitive bàird bhàrdan
Dative bàrd bàrdan; bàrdaibh*
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (am) bàrd (na) bàrdan
Genitive (a') bhàird (nam) bàrdan
Dative (a') bhàrd (na) bàrdan; bàrdaibh*
Vocative (a) bhàird (a) bhàrdan

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Derived terms
  • bana-bhàrd (“poetess”)
  • bàrd-cluiche (“dramatist”)
  • bàrd-dealbh-cluiche (“dramatist”)
  • bàrd-dhàn (“poetry”)
  • bàrdan (“poetaster”)
  • barr-bhàrd (“chief poet”)
  • ceanna-bhàrd (“head bard”)
  • prìomh-bhàrd (“chief bard”)
Descendants
  • → English: bard

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bàrd m

  1. dyke, fence
  2. park
  3. garrison
  4. corporation

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bàrd m

  1. (Strathtummel, Badenoch) meadow, land on the edge of a river

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

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàrd”, 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), “bard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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