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; cùirtibh*
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (a') chùirt (na) cùirtean
Genitive (na) cùirte (nan) cùirtean
Dative (a') chùirt (na) cùirtean; cùirtibh*
Vocative (a) chùirt (a) chùirtean

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

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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