contúirt

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuntabairt, from Old Irish cundubart (“doubt, uncertainty, danger”),[1] from com- + dí- + fo- + bert.

Pronunciation

Noun

contúirt f (genitive singular contúirte, nominative plural contúirtí or contúirteacha)

  1. danger
    Synonym: dainséar

Declension

Declension of contúirt (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative contúirt contúirtí
vocative a chontúirt a chontúirtí
genitive contúirte contúirtí
dative contúirt contúirtí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chontúirt na contúirtí
genitive na contúirte na gcontúirtí
dative leis an gcontúirt
don chontúirt 		leis na contúirtí

Mutation

Mutated forms of contúirt
radical lenition eclipsis
contúirt chontúirt gcontúirt

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuntabart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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