baedd

See also: bädd

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh baed, from Proto-Brythonic *basio- ~ *baðio-^[1] (compare Cornish badh), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoiHdʰ-so-^[2] (compare English boar, Lithuanian baĩsas (“terrible apparition”)),^[3] from *bʰoiHdʰ- (compare Latin foedus (“foul, filthy”)).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbaːɨ̯ð/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbai̯ð/

Noun

baedd m (plural baeddod)

1. boar
2. (figuratively) a fierce warrior

Related terms

• hwch (“sow”)
• moch (“pigs”)
• porchell (“piglet”)
• twrch (“barrow”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
baedd	faedd	maedd	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, s.v. “baira-” (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 48; citing Peter Schrijver, “Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Some Western European Substratum Words”, Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in Honour of R.S.P. Beekes (Amsterdam: 1997), 304.
2. Rick Derksen, Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon, s.v. “běsъ” (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 40.
3. Friedrich Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 24th edn., s.v. “Bär²” (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001), 80.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “baedd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies