cùirt

See also: cuirt and cúirt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cuirt, from a Vulgar Latin or oblique form of Latin cors.

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
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an) chùirt (na) cùirtean
Genitive (na) cùirte (nan) cùirtean
Dative (an) chùirt (na) cùirtean
Vocative (a) chùirt (a) chùirtean

Derived terms

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

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “cùirt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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