cùirt

See also: cuirt and cúirt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cuirt, from a Vulgar Latin or oblique form of Latin cors.

Noun

cùirt f (genitive singular cùirte, plural cùirtean)

1. court (royal, law)
2. palace
3. privilege, honour
4. area, yard
5. circus
6. used contemptuously

   B'e sin a' chùirt. ― I don't care; what does it matter?; that's a heat.

7. frame of a sieve or riddle

Derived terms

• taigh-cùirte (“courthouse”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cùirt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language