cúirtéir

See also: cùirteir

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman corteour, from Old French cortoiier, from cort (“court”). By surface analysis, cúirt +‎ -éir.

Noun

cúirtéir m (genitive singular cúirtéara, nominative plural cúirtéirí)

1. courter, wooer

Declension

Declension of cúirtéir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cúirtéir cúirtéirí vocative a chúirtéir a chúirtéirí genitive cúirtéara cúirtéirí dative cúirtéir cúirtéirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cúirtéir na cúirtéirí genitive an chúirtéara na gcúirtéirí dative leis an gcúirtéir don chúirtéir leis na cúirtéirí

Derived terms

• cúirtéireacht (“courting, wooing”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúirtéir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cúirtéir	chúirtéir	gcúirtéir

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúirtéir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN