baobh

baobh
a wicked woman, witch, Irish badhbh, hoodie crow, a fairy, a scold, Early Irish badb, crow, demon, Badba, the Irish war-goddess, Welsh bod, kite, Gaulish Bodv-, Bodvo-gnatus, Welsh Bodnod; Norse böð, g. boðvar, war, Anglo-Saxon beadu, g. beadwe, *badwa- (Rhys.). In Stokes' Dict. the Sanskrit bádhate, oppress, Lithuanian bádas, famine, are alone given. Also baogh.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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