cùirt

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See also: cuirt and cúirt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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 chùirt chùirtean

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of cùirt
radical lenition
cùirt chùirt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cùirt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 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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