goirt

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Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish goirt (“bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen”).

Adjective

goirt (genitive singular feminine goirte, plural goirte, comparative goirte)

  1. salty, bitter, brackish
  2. painful
Declension
Declension of goirt
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative goirt ghoirt goirte;
ghoirte2
vocative ghoirt goirte
genitive goirte goirte goirt
dative goirt;
ghoirt1 		ghoirt goirte;
ghoirte2
Comparative níos goirte
Superlative is goirte

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

goirt m

  1. inflection of gort:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of goirt
radical lenition eclipsis
goirt ghoirt ngoirt

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “goirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gʷereti, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷorti-, a variant of *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), if the meaning developed from "hot." MacBain prefers a derivation from *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”). Both roots have compared to German garstig (“nasty, rude”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

goirt

  1. bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen
  2. hungry, starved

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: goirt
  • Manx: gort
  • Scottish Gaelic: goirt

Mutation

Mutation of goirt
radical lenition nasalization
goirt goirt
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ 		ngoirt

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “gʷero”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 146
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “goirt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish goirt (“bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

goirt (comparative goirte)

  1. sore
  2. sour, tart, acidulous
  3. stale

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
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