cuirt

See also: cúirt and cùirt

Manx

Verb

cuirt

1. past participle of cuirr

Adjective

cuirt

1. sown

Derived terms

• neuchuirt

Mutation

Mutation of cuirt

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuirt	chuirt	guirt

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin cōrs, contraction of Latin cohors. The scribe of the St. Gall glosses wrote coirt first but corrected it to cuirt.

Replaced in Middle Irish by cúirt, which was borrowed from Middle English court, from Old French cort, from the same Latin word; this is the source of Irish cúirt, Manx cooyrt, and Scottish Gaelic cùirt.

Noun

cuirt f (genitive cuirte)

1. court

Declension

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cuirtL	cuirtL	cuirtiH
vocative	cuirtL	cuirtL	cuirtiH
accusative	cuirtiN	cuirtL	cuirtiH
genitive	cuirteH	cuirteL	cuirteN
dative	cuirtiL	cuirtib	cuirtib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of cuirt

radical	lenition	nasalization
cuirt	chuirt	cuirt pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

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