Searchable Lemmata: pad (OE), bad (Norn).
Alternate Forms: paad, pada.
1(n.)
Garment;
outer garment, probably taking the form of a coat or tunic rather than a cloak. The term is found in a number of compounds in Old English, normally as the second element: see entries at herepad, hoppada, hasupada. In the glosses, it is not certain that this word is the one intended; see discussion at praetersorium.(ante 700 - ante 1100)
Sex: Male, Female Use: n/a Status: Uncertain Rank: Uncertain Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.)
Garment;
as the Norn word 'bad': general term for garments, or a suit of clothes. From the Old Norse equivalent of the OE word, included here as its use in the Northern Isles of Scotland possibly goes back to the medieval period. The word passed into Scots dialect and was still in use into the earlier twentieth century (see the Scottish National Dictionary, bad n.).(ante 1450 - post 1900)
Sex: Male, Female Status: Uncertain Rank: Uncertain Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Definite, native Old English word, found primarily in compounds (see entries at hasupada, herepad, hoppada). There are various cognates: Gothic paida 'cloak, outer garment', Old Saxon peda, OHG pheit, dialectal Swedish pade 'coat, overcoat, cloak'. The word appears to have been borrowed into Germanic (by way of the Gothic word) from Greek βαίτη (though some have argued instead for an Illyrian or other origin in SE Europe, or that the Germanic term is in fact a cognate).
This word is now considered by some to be the later English word pod, in the sense 'outer covering, husk or shell, as of peas or similar plants'; such a history is not countenanced by the OED 3rd edition (updated 2006), which instead presents some rather unconvincing suggestions for the origin of the word 'pod'.
The Old Norse cognate term (source of Sw. pade; cf. Norwegian, Swedish bading 'bodice') is not directly attested, but probably took the form *pad or dialectally *bad; this is the source of the Norn term, included here as it may have a history in the Northern Isles extending back into the medieval period.
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