druid

Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally either “oak-knower” or “firm knower, great sage”), from either Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) or *drew- (“solid, firm, hard”) and *weyd- (“to see, to have knowledge”).

The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹuː.ɪd/

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• Rhymes: -uːɪd

druid (plural druids)

1. (historical) One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.
2. (fantasy, roleplaying games) A priest or mage who uses magic based on nature or trees.

• Often capitalized: Druid.

From Old Irish truit f (“starling”), from Proto-Celtic *trozdis, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”); compare Latin turdus, German Drossel, and English thrush.

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɪdʲ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɛdʲ/^[1] (as if spelled droid)

druid f (genitive singular druide, nominative plural druideanna or druideacha)

1. starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

• druideog, truid, truideog

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “druid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “truit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Irish druitid (“to close, press (against), approach, move away from”), denominative from Middle Irish drut (“closing, pressing, approaching, leaving”). Possibly related to Welsh drws (“door”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɪdʲ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɞɾˠədʲ/^[1] (as if spelled doraid)

druid (present analytic druideann, future analytic druidfidh, verbal noun druidim, past participle druidte) (transitive, intransitive)

1. (Ulster) close, shut

   Synonym: dún

2. move relative to something [with le ‘close to, near’; or with ar ‘upon’; or with ó ‘away from’]

• (Connacht) doirt

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “druid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “druitid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “druidim”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɪdʲ/

druid m

1. genitive singular of drud

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
druid	dhruid	ndruid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdru.ɨðʲ]

druïd

1. inflection of druí:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual
   3. nominative plural

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
druïd	druïd pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndruïd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally “oak-knower”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) and *weyd- (“to see”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdru.it/

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• Rhymes: -uit
• Syllabification: dru‧id

druid m pers (female equivalent druidka)

1. druid

• druid in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• druid in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French druide, from Latin Druidae.

druid m (plural druizi)

1. druid

From Old Irish truit f (“starling”), from Proto-Celtic *trozdis, from Proto-Indo-European *trozdos (“thrush”).

druid f (genitive singular druide, plural druidean)

1. starling

From Old Irish druitid (“shuts, closes; moves close (to), presses (against); approaches; moves away from, abandons”), possibly related to Welsh drws (“door”).

druid (past dhruid, future druididh, verbal noun druideadh, past participle druidte)

1. shut closely
2. (Barra) shut, close (in general)

   Synonym: dùin

3. cover
4. enclose, surround
5. advance, come up
6. join
7. hasten
8. step toward
9. approach, draw near

• truid

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “druid”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “truit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “druitid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

druid c

1. a druid

• druid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• druid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• druid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)