goirt

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ɡʌɾˠtʲ/
  • IPA(key): /ɡɔɾˠtʲ/, /ɡɪɾˠtʲ/

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
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive 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.

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
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
goirt ghoirt ngoirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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."[1] MacBain prefers a derivation from *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”).[2] Both roots have compared to German garstig (“nasty, rude”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡor͈ʲtʲ/

Adjective

goirt

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

Derived terms
  • gorte

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

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
goirt goirt
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/		 ngoirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔrt͡ʃʲ/

Adjective

goirt (comparative goirte)

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

Derived terms
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