Menapian nouns: haid: Difference between revisions

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From Old Menapian '''''wrig''''', after + Old Menapian '''''haid''''', death.
From Old Menapian '''''wrig''''', after + Old Menapian '''''haid''''', death.


===Declension 2===
====Declension 2====


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Etymology

From Middle Menapian haid, from Old Menapian hair, from Primitive Menapian air ("carnage; death; destruction"), from Proto-Bythonic aɨr ("battle; carnage"), from Proto-Celtic *agrom ("slaughter; battle"). Cognate with Irish ár ("slaughter"), Scottish Gaelic àr ("slaughter") and Manx haar ("slaughter"). Borrowed by Flemish as Haid, Dutch as Haid and Picard as Haid; all names for the personification of death.

haid

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /haɪɾ/

Definition 1

Noun

f haid (plural, haid)

(uncountable)

  1. death.
  2. destruction, carnage.

Declension 1

Definition 2

Noun

f haid (plural, haire)

(countable)

  1. a defeat, specifically in battle or a fighting game.

Derived terms

wrighaid

  1. the long-term effects or the period after a destructive event, specifically when negative.

From Old Menapian wrig, after + Old Menapian haid, death.

Declension 2