cuit

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkujt]
• Rhymes: -ujt

Participle

cuit (feminine cuida, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuides)

1. past participle of coure

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cuit, from Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥi/

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• Rhymes: -ɥi

Adjective

cuit (feminine cuite, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuites)

1. cooked
2. (slang) sozzled, smashed (intoxicated by alcohol)

Derived terms

• bien cuit

Related terms

• biscuit

Verb

cuit

1. third-person singular present indicative of cuire

Participle

cuit (feminine cuite, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuites)

1. past participle of cuire

Further reading

• “cuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Luiseño

Alternative forms

• kwit (Juaneño)

Noun

cuit

1. (Luiseño) male-bodied person who lives as a woman and practices feminine activities (and may marry a man), traditionally regarded as strong and hence as particularly desirable as a wife, especially for a chief

See also

• two-spirit
• 'uleeki

References

• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (2010, →ISBN)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French cuit, from Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).

Verb

cuit

1. past participle of cuire

Adjective

cuit m

1. cooked

Old French

Verb

cuit

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuidier

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (compare Welsh peth (“thing”), Breton pezh (“piece”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kudʲ/

Noun

cuit f

1. part, portion, share
2. property, possession, means
3. partiality, love for a person
4. portion of food, (evening) meal

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cuit	cuitL	cuitiH
Vocative	cuit	cuitL	cuitiH
Accusative	cuitN	cuitL	cuitiH
Genitive	cotoH, cotaH	cotoH, cotaH	cuiteN
Dative	cuitL	cuitib	cuitib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• ar chuit
• cuit adaill
• cuitigid

 

Descendants

• Middle Irish: cuit
  • Irish: cuid
  • Manx: cooid
  • Scottish Gaelic: cuid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cuit	chuit	cuit pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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