bord

See also: Bord, borð, bòrd, bórd, and börd

English

Etymology 1

See board.

Noun

bord (plural bords)

  1. Obsolete form of board. [11th–17th c.]
  2. Obsolete form of bourd. [14th–17th c.]

Etymology 2

Noun

bord (plural bords)

  1. (mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

bord m (plural bords)

  1. bastard

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English bord (“board”).

Noun

bord m (plural bordys)

  1. (Revived Late Cornish) table

Synonyms

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse borð.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bor/, [b̥oɐ̯ˀ]
  • Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Noun

bord n (singular definite bordet, plural indefinite borde)

  1. table, desk

Inflection

Derived terms

Noun

bord n (singular definite bordet, plural indefinite bord)

  1. plank

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bort, from Old Dutch *bort, from Proto-Germanic *burdą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔrt/
  • audio(file)

Noun

bord n (plural borden, diminutive bordje n)

  1. plate, dish (cutlery)
  2. sign (traffic, etc.)
  3. board (as in "blackboard" (see schoolbord) or as in "chessboard" (see schaakbord))

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boord.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔʁ/
  • Au bord de(file)

Noun

bord m (plural bords)

  1. border, edge, limit ; boundary
  2. side
  3. rim
  4. shore

Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish bord (“border, board”) (compare Scottish Gaelic bòrd), from Old English bord (“plank, table”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ/
  • (Connemara) IPA(key): /bˠəuɾˠd̪ˠ/

Noun

bord m (genitive singular boird, nominative plural boird or borda)

  1. board, table
  2. board (of experts, etc.), council
  3. (topography) border
  4. (nautical) board, side
  5. gunwale
  6. deck
  7. load

Declension

  • Alternative plural form: borda (used in certain prepositional phrases)

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • ar bord (“on board, aboard”)
  • bord na farraige m (“seaboard”)
  • bord níocháin m (“washstand”)
  • fíon boird m (“table wine”)
  • lárbhord m (“after-deck”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bord bhord mbord
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "bord" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “bord” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse borð.

Noun

bord m (plural bords)

  1. (Jersey, nautical) board (side of a ship)

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse borð

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːɽ/; IPA(key): /buːɾ/
  • Homophones: bol; bor

Noun

bord n (definite singular bordet, indefinite plural bord or border, definite plural borda or bordene)

  1. table (furniture)
  2. wooden board; plank
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bord/

Noun

bord m (definite singular bordet, indefinite plural bord, definite plural bordene)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse borð

Noun

bord n (definite singular bordet, indefinite plural bord, definite plural borda)

  1. (furniture) a table
  2. wooden board; plank
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

bord m (definite singular borden, indefinite plural bordar, definite plural bordane)

  1. border (decorative strip)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *burdą.

Noun

bord n

  1. plank
  2. table

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse borð, from Proto-Germanic *burdą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːɖ/
  • audio(file)

Noun

bord n

  1. a table (a piece of furniture)
  2. (nautical) a plank used in the side of a hull

Declension

Declension of bord 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bord bordet bord borden
Genitive bords bordets bords bordens

Derived terms

(table):

(board):

References

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English bord (“board”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔrd/

Noun

bord f (plural bordydd)

  1. (South Wales) table (item of furniture)
  2. food and drink, hospitality, sustenance
  3. (nautical) side (of a ship)

Synonyms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bord ford mord unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • “bord”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014
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