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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)
- 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
Declension of cùirt (class IIb feminine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| cùirt |
chùirt
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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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