suirí
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suirí f (genitive singular suirí)
- (act of) wooing, courting; courtship
- Synonym: cúirtéireacht
- sexual intercourse, lovemaking
Declension
[edit]Declension of suirí
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- éan suirí (“lovebird”)
- páiste suirí (“bastard, love child”)
- plaicín suirí (“hickey”)
- séad suirí (“love-token”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
suirí | shuirí after an, tsuirí |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suirí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “suirí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “suirí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46