# buide
## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuðʲe/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

buide (equative buidither, comparative budiu)
* 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$^a$10
    glosses flavus
** “Daith bech buide”:
    Daith bech buide a húaim i n-úaim […]Nimble is the yellow bee from cave to cave […]

##### Inflection

io/iā-stem :
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | buide | buide | buide |
| Vocative | buidi | buide | buide |
| Accusative | buide | buidi | buide |
| Genitive | buidi | buide | buidi |
| Dative | buidiu | buidi | buidiu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | Feminine/neuter |
| Nominative | buidi | buidi | buidi |
| Vocative | buidi buidiu* | buidi | buidi |
| Accusative | buidi buidiu* | buidi | buidi |
| Genitive | buide | buide | buide |
| Dative | buidib | buidib | buidib |
| Notes | * when substantivized | * when substantivized | * when substantivized |

#### Noun

buide f
* yellowness
* (botany) buttercup
* honey, pollen

##### Inflection

Feminine iā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | buide$^L$ | buidi$^L$ | buidi |
| Vocative | buide$^L$ | buidi$^L$ | buidi |
| Accusative | buidi$^N$ | buidi$^L$ | buidi |
| Genitive | buide | buide$^L$ | buide$^N$ |
| Dative | buidi$^L$ | buidib | buidib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* boide

#### Noun

buide f (genitive buide)
* 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
* gratitude

##### Inflection

Feminine iā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | buide$^L$ | — | — |
| Vocative | buide$^L$ | — | — |
| Accusative | buidi$^N$ | — | — |
| Genitive | buide | — | — |
| Dative | buidi$^L$ | — | — |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

##### Derived terms

* buidech

##### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* 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

### References

* ↑ Reprinted in Wim Tigges in collaboration with Feargal Ó Béarra (2006) An Old Irish Primer, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, →ISBN, page 13