stáid

Probably a specialized use of staid (“furlong”), or borrowed from English stade (“track for footraces”). This sense does not appear in the Dictionary of the Irish Language, Dinneen’s dictionary, or de Bhaldraithe’s 1959 English–Irish Dictionary, suggesting it may be a relatively recent development.

stáid f (genitive singular stáide, nominative plural stáideanna)

1. trail, track
2. streak, line
3. (nautical) wake (path left behind a ship on the surface of the water)

• (trail, track): rian
• (streak): stríoc
• (line): líne
• (wake): marbhshruth

Clipping of stáidbhean.

stáid f (genitive singular stáide, nominative plural stáideanna)

1. stately woman

stáid f (genitive singular stáide, nominative plural stáideanna)

1. alternative form of staid (“stadium, furlong; state, condition”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “stáid”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1118; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “stáid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “stáid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025