biodag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bíth, from Proto-Celtic *bītV (“cut, break”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split, break”).

Noun

biodag f (genitive singular biodaige, plural biodagan)

  1. dagger, dirk, dudgeon

Further reading
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “biodag”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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