broid

English

Verb

broid (third-person singular simple present broids, present participle broiding, simple past and past participle broided)

  1. Obsolete form of braid.
    • 1611, 1 Timothy, King James Bible:
      In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

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Anagrams

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish brat, broit f (act of plundering).

Noun

broid f (genitive singular broide)

  1. (literary) captive; (collective) captives
  2. captivity, bondage
  3. distress
  4. misery, suspense
  5. press, hurry
Declension

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

broid f (genitive singular broide, nominative plural broideanna)

  1. stingfish
Declension
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

From Old Irish bruitid (goads, pricks, verb), from brot m (goad; spike); see brod (goad).

Verb

broid (present analytic broideann, future analytic broidfidh, verbal noun broideadh, past participle broidte)

  1. (transitive) goad, prod
  2. (transitive) nudge
Conjugation
Alternative forms
  • bruidigh
Derived terms

Noun

broid m

  1. inflection of brod (goad):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
broid bhroid mbroid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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