buird
See also: bùird
Manx edit
Noun edit
buird m
Mutation edit
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
buird | vuird | muird |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English bord (“board, slab; table; boat; shield”). Cognate with English board.
Pronunciation edit
- (Shetlandic, Orkney) IPA(key): /bøːrd/
- (Central, Down, Southern) IPA(key): /beːrd/
- (Donegal, Doric) IPA(key): /bi(ː)rd/
- (Caithness, Moray, Nairn) IPA(key): /b(j)uːrd/
Noun edit
buird (plural buirds)
- board (relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making)
- 1847, James Paterson, The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire, page 90:
- A briest like a buird, and a back like a door.
- "A breast like a board, and a back like a door.
- table
- 1877, Alex G. Murdoch, The Laird's Lykewake and Other Poems[1], London, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Simpkin, Marshal, & Co.; John Menzies & Co,, Bring the Bodie Ben, page 183:
- They brocht him ben, an' sat him doun before a weel-spread buird,
- They brought him in, and sat him down before a well-spread table,