cuit

Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkujt]
• Rhymes: -ujt

Verb

cuit (feminine cui, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuis)

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French

Etymology

From Old French cuit, from Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥi/
• Rhymes: -ɥi

Adjective

cuit (feminine cuite, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuites)

1. cooked
2. (slang) sozzled, smashed (intoxicated by alcohol)

Related terms

• biscuit

Verb

cuit

1. third-person singular present indicative of cuire
2. past participle of cuire

Further reading

• “cuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Luiseño

Alternative forms

• kwit (Juaneño)

Noun

cuit

1. (Luiseño) male-bodied person who lives as a woman and practices feminine activities (and may marry a man), traditionally regarded as strong and hence as particularly desirable as a wife, especially for a chief

See also

• two-spirit
• 'uleeki

References

• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (2010, →ISBN)

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French cuit, from Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).

Verb

cuit

1. past participle of cuire

Adjective

cuit m

1. cooked

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Old French

Verb

cuit

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuidier

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷesdis (compare Welsh peth (“thing”), Breton pezh (“piece”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kudʲ/

Noun

cuit f

1. part, portion, share
2. property, possession, means
3. partiality, love for a person
4. portion of food, (evening) meal

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cuit	cuitL	cuitiH
Vocative	cuit	cuitL	cuitiH
Accusative	cuitN	cuitL	cuitiH
Genitive	cotoH, cotaH	cotoH, cotaH	cuiteN
Dative	cuitL	cuitib	cuitib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• ar chuit
• cuit adaill
• cuitigid

 

Descendants

• Irish: cuid
• Manx: cooid
• Scottish Gaelic: cuid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cuit	chuit	cuit pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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