cùirt

See also: cuirt and cúirt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cúirt,[1] from Middle English court, from Old French cort, from Late Latin cōrs, contraction of Latin cohors. Replaced Old Irish coirt, which was borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate with Irish cúirt and Manx cooyrt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰuːrˠʃtʲ/

Noun

cùirt f (genitive singular cùirte, plural cùirtean)

  1. court (of law)
  2. (royal) court
  3. palace
  4. privilege, honour
  5. area, yard
  6. circus
  7. used contemptuously
    B'e sin a' chùirt. ― I don't care; what does it matter?; that's a heat.
  8. frame of a sieve or riddle

Declension

Declension of cùirt (class IIb feminine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative cùirt cùirtean
genitive cùirte chùirtean
dative cùirt cùirtean; cùirtibh✝
definite
singular plural
nominative (a') chùirt (na) cùirtean
genitive (na) cùirte (nan) cùirtean
dative (a') chùirt (na) cùirtean; cùirtibh✝
vocative chùirt chùirtean

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of cùirt
radical lenition
cùirt chùirt

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

References

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “cùirt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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