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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cuirt, from a Vulgar Latin or oblique form of Latin cors.
Pronunciation
Noun
cúirt f (genitive singular cúirte, nominative plural cúirteanna)
- court
- (law) courthouse
- manor house, mansion
- courtyard
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cúirt
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chúirt
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gcúirt
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúirt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language