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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.
Pronunciation
Noun
suirí f (genitive singular suirí)
- (act of) wooing, courting; courtship
- Synonym: cúirtéireacht
- sexual intercourse, lovemaking
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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| suirí
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shuirí
after an, tsuirí
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not applicable
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suirí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “suirí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “suirí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46