gort

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See also: Gort and ğort

Dutch

Etymology

Variant of grut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɔrt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: gort
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt

Noun

gort m (uncountable)

  1. pearl barley
  2. grit

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Sranan Tongo: groto

See also

German

Pronunciation

Verb

gort

  1. second-person plural preterite of gären

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

gort n (genitive singular gorts, no plural)

  1. boasting, bragging

Declension

Synonyms

  • gorta (to boast, to brag)
  • gortari (boaster, braggart)

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (enclosure, yard) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of garraí.

Noun

gort m (genitive singular goirt, nominative plural goirt)

  1. field
  2. (in phrases) orchard
  3. (standing) crop
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

Noun

gort m (genitive singular goirt)

  1. (literary) ivy
Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gort ghort ngort
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish gorte, from goirt (starved). Cognate with Irish gorta.

Noun

gort f (genitive singular gorta, plural gortan)

  1. famine
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

gort f (genitive singular gorta)

  1. (archaic) ivy
  2. (obsolete) the letter G in the Ogham alphabet

References

Etymology 3

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (enclosure, yard) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of gàrradh.

Noun

gort m (genitive singular goirt, plural goirt)

  1. (Islay) field
    Synonyms: achadh, pàirc, raon
  2. enclosure
  3. (standing) crop

References

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gort”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
gort ghort
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.