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    Borrowed from Welsh taid (“grandfather”).[1]

    taid (plural taids)

    1. (North Wales) A grandfather.
      Synonym: tadcu (Southern)
      Coordinate term: nain

      • 2015 July 15, Lorna Doran, “The best places for kids to eat in Wales - as recommended by YOU”, in WalesOnline‎[1], archived from the original on 2018-01-04:

        Then we threw down a gauntlet to the mams, dads, nains and taids of Wales to see where they go to treat their kids to some really good, tasty food.

    1. ^ “taid, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
    • Hyphenation: ta‧id
    • IPA(key): /ˈtaʔid/ [ˈta.ʔid̪]

    táid (Basahan spelling ᜆᜁᜇ᜔)

    1. (Naga) beside
      Synonym: taning

    ·taïd

    1. second-person plural progressive present indicative prototonic of at·tá

    From Middle Low German tît, from Old Saxon tīd, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis.

    taid m inan

    1. time

    From Middle English tode.

    taid (plural taids)

    1. toad

    Compare Irish daid (“grandfather”).

    This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
    Particularly: “Looks related to tad and tad-cu and such - via what phonological processes though?”

    taid m (plural teidiau)

    1. (North Wales) grandfather
      Synonyms: hendad, tad-cu
    • The usual word for "grandfather" in the Welsh of South Wales is tad-cu.
    • mam-gu (“grandmother”)
    • nain (“grandmother”)
    • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “taid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies