cuspair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuspóir m (“target, purpose, aim, object”) (compare Irish cuspóir), from Latin cuspis f (“point, tip”).

Noun

cuspair m (genitive singular cuspair, plural cuspairean)

1. subject, topic

   is e seo an cuspair a bu toil leam bruidhinn air ― this is the subject I'd like to talk about

2. subject (at school)
3. (grammar) object
4. (dated) object (of emotion)

   cuspair mo ghràidh ― my lover (literally, “object of my love”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cuspair”, 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), “cuspóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language