gort

See also: Gort and ğort

Dutch

Etymology

Variant of grut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: gort
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Noun

gort m (uncountable)

1. pearl barley
2. grit

Derived terms

• gortbeuling
• gortdroog
• gortenteller
• gortepap
• gortig
• gortketel
• gortpellerij
• gortrijst
• gortzak
• haver tot gort
• havergort
• parelgort

 

Related terms

• grut

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: groto

See also

• gerst

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

gort

1. second-person plural preterite of gären

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔr̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔr̥t

Noun

gort n (genitive singular gorts, no plural)

1. boasting, bragging

Synonyms

• (boasting): grobb, mont, raup, skrum

Related terms

• gorta (“to boast, to brag”)
• gortari (“boaster, braggart”)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of garraí.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡʌɾˠt̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡɔɾˠt̪ˠ/

Noun

gort m (genitive singular goirt, nominative plural goirt)

1. field
2. (in phrases) orchard
3. (standing) crop
4. the Ogham letter ᚌ (g)

Declension

Declension of gort

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative gort goirt Vocative a ghoirt a ghorta Genitive goirt gort Dative gort goirt

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an gort na goirt Genitive an ghoirt na ngort Dative leis an ngort don ghort leis na goirt

Synonyms

• garraí
• páirc

Derived terms

• fíonghort (“vineyard”)
• scuab eich ghoirt (“field horsetail”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gort	ghort	ngort
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔrˠʃt̪/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish gorte, from goirt (“starved”). Cognate with Irish gorta.

Noun

gort f (genitive singular gorta, plural gortan)

1. famine

Derived terms

• gearradh-gort
• Gort Mhòr

 

Etymology 2

Derivative of Etymology 3 ("field, enclosure") via a change in gender.

Noun

gort f (genitive singular gorta)

1. the letter G in the Ogham alphabet: ᚌ

References

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

Etymology 3

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of gàrradh.

Noun

gort m (genitive singular goirt, plural goirt)

1. (Islay) field

   Synonyms: achadh, pàirc, raon

2. enclosure
3. (standing) crop

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gort”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
gort	ghort
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.