cúirt

See also: cuirt and cùirt

Irish

Alternative forms

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 Manx cooyrt and Scottish Gaelic cùirt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːɾˠtʲ/[2]

Noun

cúirt f (genitive singular cúirte, nominative plural cúirteanna)

  1. court
  2. (law) courthouse
  3. manor house, mansion
  4. courtyard

Declension

Declension of cúirt (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cúirt cúirteanna
vocative a chúirt a chúirteanna
genitive cúirte cúirteanna
dative cúirt cúirteanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chúirt na cúirteanna
genitive na cúirte na gcúirteanna
dative leis an gcúirt
don chúirt 		leis na cúirteanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúirt
radical lenition eclipsis
cúirt chúirt gcúirt

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), “cuirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 168

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