biodag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bíth, from Proto-Celtic *bītV (“cut, break”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split, break”).

Noun

biodag f (genitive singular biodaige, plural biodagan)

1. dagger, dirk, dudgeon

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “biodag”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN