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	chùirt	chùirtean

^✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

• taigh-cùirte (“courthouse”)

Mutation

Mutation of cùirt

radical	lenition
cùirt	chùirt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cùirt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language