gaoid
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish gaét, 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”).
Noun
gaoid f (genitive singular gaoide, plural gaoidean)
- blemish, defect
- gun ghaoid gun ghalair ― without blemish or disease
- stain
- disease
- flaw (particularly in cattle)
- (a' ghaoid) potato disease
- (rarely) wind, blasts, flatulence
Related terms
- gaoideach (“defective”)
- gaoideantachd (“idleness, slothfulness, slugishness”)
- gaoideanta (“unsound at the core, idle, slothful, sluggish”)
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “gaoid”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm. A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language Edinburgh: John Grant (1925)
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gaét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language