Noun: bard
Sample Sentences
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He is a Welsh bard, and a man full of animation, anecdote, and independence; […] [1837, Richard Llwyd, The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, the Bard of Snowdon:]
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A WEAPON, THE WARRIOR CARRIES. A SAW, THE IDIOT CARRIES. AN INSTRUMENT, THE BARD CARRIES. [2023, Rundisc, Chants of Sennaar, Focus Entertainment, via Nintendo Switch, level/area: Gardens:]
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Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.
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I saw a bard work a bit of magic once. He brought up a volunteer from the audience, insulted him in rather colorful fashion, and then made the man forget the insults—and then he did the same trick all over again, twice more.” [2015 August 18, Tim Pratt, Pathfinder Tales: Reign of Stars, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 116:]
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"Having a bard would be even less helpful than having a second wizard," John interjects. [2024 January 9, Kristy Boyce, Dungeons and Drama, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 66:]
Nouns inflected like bard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-dʰh₁o-der.
5. Proto-Celtic *bardosder.
6. Old Irish bard
7. Scottish Gaelic bàrdder.
8. English bard
9. (15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”). See: Latin Nouns '
bardus', Latin Nouns '
gratus'.
Verbs referencing "bard"
Dutch Nouns
bard, Russian Nouns
бард.