cúiteamh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cúitem.

Noun

cúiteamh m (genitive singular cúitimh)

1. compensation, equalization, indemnity, recompense, reparation, restitution, retribution
2. (golf) borrow, break

Declension

Declension of cúiteamh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cúiteamh vocative a chúitimh genitive cúitimh dative cúiteamh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an cúiteamh genitive an chúitimh dative leis an gcúiteamh don chúiteamh

Synonyms

• (restitution): aiseag, aisíoc

Derived terms

• cúiteamh airgid
• cúiteamh carbóin
• leorchúiteamh

Related terms

• cúitigh (“requite, compensate”, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúiteamh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cúiteamh	chúiteamh	gcúiteamh

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) “cúiteamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cúiteamh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cúiteamh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cúitem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language