cùirt
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish cuirt, from a Vulgar Latin or oblique form of Latin cors.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcùirt f (genitive singular cùirte, plural cùirtean)
- court (of law)
- (royal) court
- palace
- privilege, honour
- area, yard
- circus
- used contemptuously
- B'e sin a' chùirt. ― I don't care; what does it matter?; that's a heat.
- frame of a sieve or riddle
Declension
editDeclension of cùirt (class IIb feminine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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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 | chùirt | chùirtean |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
edit- taigh-cùirte (“courthouse”)
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cùirt | chùirt |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- 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
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- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Vulgar Latin
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