bagair

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bacraid (threatens, speaks threateningly), from bacar (threat, act of threatening).

Verb

bagair (present analytic bagraíonn, future analytic bagróidh, verbal noun bagairt, past participle bagartha) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. brandish
  2. threaten (with ar + the person threatened)
    ag bagairt báistíthreatening rain
  3. drive (animals)
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • bagair do mhéar (to beckon (with a finger))
  • bagair do shúil (to wink)

Noun

bagair m sg

  1. vocative/genitive singular of bagar (threat)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bagair bhagair mbagair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bacraid (threatens, speaks threateningly), from bacar (threat, act of threatening).

Verb

bagair (past bhagair, future bagairidh, verbal noun bagairt or bagradh, past participle bagairte)

  1. threaten (with air)
    An do bhagair e ort?Did he threaten you?
  2. bluster

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
bagairbhagair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bagair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bacraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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