plaid
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Scots plaid, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a past participle form of ply. Scottish Gaelic plaide (“blanket”) is probably a borrowing from Scots.[1]
Also compare Scottish Gaelic peall (“covering, veil, blanket”) << Latin pellis (“hide, covering”), but the OED finds the sound changes problematic.[2]
PronunciationEdit
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /pled/, /plad/
- (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA(key): /plæd/
- (General American, US) IPA(key): /plæd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æd
NounEdit
plaid (countable and uncountable, plural plaids)
- (textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern. [from 16thc.]
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands. [from 16thc.]
- 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 47:
- In battle, the plaid was customarily shrugged off before the charge bit home, and the warrior came into contact with only his long, saffron shirt (‘leine chrochach’) to preserve modesty.
- The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. [from 19thc.]
TranslationsEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
plaid (comparative more plaid, superlative most plaid)
- Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.
Etymology 2Edit
Alternative forms.
VerbEdit
plaid
- (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of play
- 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 134,
- "...then plaid on the organ, and sung..."
- 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 134,
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Dictionary of the Scots Language
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
plaid m (plural plaids)
Further readingEdit
- “plaid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
plaid m (invariable)
Middle EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French plait, plaid.
NounEdit
plaid
- Alternative form of ple
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
plaid m (oblique plural plaiz or plaitz, nominative singular plaiz or plaitz, nominative plural plaid)
- Alternative form of plait
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- pled (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
NounEdit
plaid m (plural plaids)
Related termsEdit
ScotsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Uncertain; perhaps from a past participle form of ply.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
plaid (plural plaids)
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
The original meaning was "row," "rank," later "partition,"[1] possibly related to Irish pluid/Scottish Gaelic plaide (“blanket”); as Proto-Celtic had no p, the term was likely a borrowing, such as English/Scots plaid.[2]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
plaid f (plural pleidiau)
Derived termsEdit
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| plaid | blaid | mhlaid | phlaid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||