cùirt

See also: cuirt and cúirt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cuirt, from a Vulgar Latin or oblique form of Latin cors.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰuːrˠʃtʲ/

Noun

cùirt f (genitive singular cùirte, plural cùirtean)

1. court (of law)
2. (royal) court
3. palace
4. privilege, honour
5. area, yard
6. circus
7. used contemptuously

   B'e sin a' chùirt. ― I don't care; what does it matter?; that's a heat.

8. frame of a sieve or riddle

Declension

Declension of cùirt (class IIb feminine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cùirt	cùirtean
Genitive	cùirte	chùirtean
Dative	cùirt	cùirtean; cùirtibh*
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(a') chùirt	(na) cùirtean
Genitive	(na) cùirte	(nan) cùirtean
Dative	(a') chùirt	(na) cùirtean; cùirtibh*
Vocative	(a) chùirt	(a) chùirtean

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Derived terms

• taigh-cùirte (“courthouse”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cùirt	chùirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cùirt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language