Old Irish

Adjective

buide ‎(equative buidither, comparative budiu)

1. yellow
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 14^a10

     glosses flavus

Inflection

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Noun

buide f

1. yellowness
2. (botany) buttercup
3. honey, pollen

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: buí
• Manx: buigh, bwee
• Scottish Gaelic: buidhe

Etymology 2

Noun

buide f ‎(genitive boide)

1. thanks
2. gratitude

Inflection

References

• “1 buide (‘yellow’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 buide (‘thanks’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.