buide

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuðʲe/

From Proto-Celtic *bodyos (“yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bodyos (“yellow, brown”), source of Latin badius.

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

   • “Daith bech buide”:^[1]

     Daith bech buide a húaim i n-úaim […]

     Nimble is the yellow bee from cave to cave […]

buide f

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

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

From Proto-Celtic *bodyā, from *bodos (“good will”) (compare Welsh bodd (“good will”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“good”).

• boide

buide f (genitive buide)

1. thanks
   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 58^a

     Bíid didiu a confessio hísin do foísitin pecthae, bíid dano do molad, bíid dano do atlugud buide; do foísitin didiu atá-som sunt.

     That confessio, then, is for confessing sins, it is also for praising, it is also for offering thanks; here, then, it is for confessing

2. gratitude

• buidech

• Irish: buí (“thanks”)
• Scottish Gaelic: buidhe (“thanks”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buide (‘yellow’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 buide (‘thanks’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language