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
bàrd	bhàrd
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]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language