From Middle Irish bord (“border, board”) (compare Manx boayrd, Scottish Gaelic bòrd), from Old English bord (“plank, table”).
bord m (genitive singular boird, nominative plural boird or borda)
- A board
- table
- Synonym: (Ulster) tábla
- A board, panel (of experts, etc.), council
- (topography) border
- (nautical) board, side
- gunwale
- deck
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- Alternative plural form: borda (used in certain prepositional phrases)
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bord”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bord”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “bord”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
From Middle Welsh bort, from Old English bord (“board”); doublet of bwrdd.
bord f (plural bordydd)
- (South Wales) table (item of furniture)
- Synonym: bwrdd
- food and drink, hospitality, sustenance
- (nautical) side (of a ship)
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bord”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies