cuideachta
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cuitechta (“company, band, troop, following, retinue; accompaniment, companionship, society”), from con- + techt.
Noun
[edit]cuideachta f (genitive singular cuideachta, nominative plural cuideachtaí)
- company
- companionship
- Proverb: Is fearr uaigneas maith ná droch-chuideachta. ― It is better to be alone than in bad company.
- (commerce, law) company
- companionship
- social amusement, fun
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- bunú cuideachta, maoiniú cuideachta (“flotation”)
- cuideachta a dhéanamh do (“entertain, occupy”, verb)
- cuideachta airgeadais (“finance company”)
- cuideachta árachais (“insurance company”)
- cuideachta bhainistíochta (“management company”)
- cuideachta chaoch (“shell company”)
- cuideachta chomhlachaithe (“associated company”)
- cuideachta fóntais (“utility company”)
- cuideachta phoiblí (“public company”)
- cuideachta phríobháideach (“private company”)
- cuideachta sealbhaíochta (“holding company”)
- cuideachta stoic (“stock company”)
- cuideachta theoranta (“limited company”)
- cuideachtaigh (“bring together, associate”, transitive verb)
- cuideachtúil (“companionable, sociable”, adjective)
- rúnaí cuideachta (“company secretary”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cuideachta | chuideachta | gcuideachta |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuideachta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuitechta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuideachta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cuideachta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024