Welsh

Noun

baedd m (plural baeddod or baidd)

1. wild boar; (figuratively) a fierce warrior
2. barrow pig

Synonyms

• (boar): twrch

Related terms

• hwch
• moch
• porchell

Mutation

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.

• “baedd” in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru.