different between laird vs yaird

English

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from Scots laird, from northern or Scottish Middle English lard, laverd, a variant of lord. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l???d/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /lerd/
• Homophone: laired

Noun

laird (plural lairds)

1. (chiefly Scotland) The owner of a Scottish estate; a member of the landed gentry, a landowner. [from 14th c.]
2. (chiefly Scotland, historical) Often in the form Laird of, followed by a patronymic: a Scottish clan chief.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

laird (third-person singular simple present lairds, present participle lairding, simple past and past participle lairded)

1. (transitive, Scotland) Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).

Translations

References

Further reading

• laird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• LIDAR, drail, larid, liard, lidar

Scots

Etymology

From northern/Scottish Middle English lard, laverd, a variant of lord.

Noun

laird (plural lairds)

1. a lord or land owner

English

Noun

yaird (plural yairds)

1. (Scotland) Obsolete form of yard.
   • 1842, The Woodrow Society, Row’s History of the Kirk of Scotland, Edinburgh Printing Company, page 434:

     On Tuesday, by the first break of day, he went over the street to his yaird barefooted and bareheaded, (as David did when he went up Mount Olivet, fleeing out of Jerusalem from his son Absolom,) he locked the yaird doore behinde him, haveing charged them that were in the house with Helen Gardener, the baillie’s wife, to attend her, sitting quyet besyde hir.

   • 1870, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, A. & C. Black, page 425:

     and in this equipage, with his little phizie (fusee) upon his shoulder, he marches to the church yaird, where the May-pole was sett up, and the solemnitie of that day was to be kept.

   • 1998, Leah Leneman, Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830, Edinburgh University Press, page 30:

     A witness, Thomas Storie, said that Dalmahoy, with ‘a young woman Iron coloured of a high stature [i.e. tall] in common habit’, called at a neighbour’s house and asked for a drink of ale and enquired ‘if there was a yaird or any place for him and her to walk in’, and that they went to the yaird in question where Storie saw him ‘kissing and Imbraceing the said woman’.

Anagrams

• dairy, diary

Scots

Etymology

From Old English ?eard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?rd/

Noun

yaird (plural yairds)

1. yard (measurement)
2. garden, yard