abaid

Irish

Noun

abaid f (genitive singular abaide, nominative plural abaideacha)

  1. Alternative form of aibíd (“habit, religious dress”)

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
abaid n-abaid habaid not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish apaig, from ad- + boingid (“to reap, pluck”).

Adjective

abaid

  1. ripe; mature

Descendants

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
abaid unchanged n-abaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • “apaig” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aibit (“habit, dress; habit, custom”), from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”).

Noun

abaid f (genitive singular abaide, plural abaidean)

  1. abbey
  2. (dated) cowl, hood (monk's)
  3. (dated) hat

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
abaid n-abaid h-abaid t-abaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “aibit” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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