cuid

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cuit (“part, portion, share”), from Insular Celtic *kwezdi- (compare Welsh peth (“thing”), Breton péz (“piece”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kɪdʲ]

Noun

cuid f (genitive coda, nominative plural codanna)

1. part
2. portion
3. used with non-inalienable mass nouns and plural count nouns as a kind of measure word after a possessive pronoun or before a genitive

   mo chuid leabhar — my books (lit. "my portion of books")

   mo chuid ceoil — my music (lit. "my portion of music")

   mo chuid grianghraf — my pictures (lit. "my portion of pictures")

   mo chuid físeán — my videos (lit. "my portion of videos")

   cuid éadaigh Sheáin — Seán's clothing (lit. "Seán's portion of clothing")

   • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:

     Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.

     A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.

Declension

Declension of cuid

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cuid codanna Vocative a chuid a chodanna Genitive coda codanna Dative cuid codanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an chuid na codanna Genitive na coda na gcodanna Dative leis an gcuid don chuid leis na codanna

Usage notes

The measure-word meaning of cuid is not used with inalienable nouns like relatives and body parts:

• deartháireacha an bhuachalla – The boy's brothers (not *cuid deartháireacha an bhuachalla)
• mo ghruaig — my hair (not *mo chuid gruaige)

Derived terms

• mórchuid

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuid	chuid	gcuid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Provençal

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kyjd/

Verb

cuid

1. present first-person singular form of cuidar

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cuit (“part, portion, share”), from Insular Celtic *kwezdi- (compare Welsh peth (“thing”), Breton péz (“piece”)).

Noun

cuid f (genitive codach, plural codaichean)

1. part, portion, share, ingredient

Usage notes

• Sometimes used where English uses pronoun:

  cuid dhiubh - some of them (literally "part of them")

  a' chuid eile - the others (literally "the other part")

Derived terms

• an dà chuid - both
• an dara cuid - either (conjunction)
• aon chuid - either (conjunction)
• cuideigin - somebody