òrd

See also: ord, Ord, and orð

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ord, ordd, from Proto-Celtic *ordos (compare Welsh gordd).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔːɾʃt̪/

Noun

òrd m (genitive singular ùird, plural ùird or òrdan)

  1. hammer
    mar fhuaim ùird ― like the noise of a hammer
  2. dog-head of a gun, the part of a gunlock from which the flint strikes fire
  3. piece, fragment, chunk
    Gearr 'n a òrdan e.
    Cut it in pieces.
  4. stub
  5. mallet, mall
  6. cut, cutting
    òrd éisg ― a cut or slice of fish
  7. sledgehammer
  8. a short length of string

Derived terms
  • òrd-mòr (“sledgehammer”)
  • òrd-ladhrach (“claw hammer”)
  • òrd-barraidh (“clinching hammer”)

See also

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
òrdn-òrdh-òrdt-òrd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “òrd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ord(d)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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