gaoid

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gáet, verbal noun of gáetaid, from Old Irish goíte, the past participle of gonaid (“to wound, kill”), from Proto-Celtic *gʷaneti (“to strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to slay, kill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɯːtʲ/

Noun

gaoid f (genitive singular gaoide, plural gaoidean)

1. blemish, defect

   gun ghaoid gun ghalair ― without blemish or disease

2. stain
3. disease
4. flaw (particularly in cattle)
5. (a' ghaoid) potato disease
6. (rarely) wind, blasts, flatulence

Related terms

• gaoideach (“defective”)
• gaoideanta (“unsound at the core, idle, slothful, sluggish”)
• gaoideantachd (“idleness, slothfulness, slugishness”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “gaoid”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gaét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language