suirí

Irish

Alternative forms

• suirghe

Etymology

From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠɪˈɾʲiː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɪɾʲiː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɪɾʲi/

Noun

suirí f (genitive singular suirí)

1. (act of) wooing, courting; courtship

   Synonym: cúirtéireacht

2. sexual intercourse, lovemaking

Declension

Declension of suirí

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative suirí Vocative a shuirí Genitive suirí Dative suirí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an tsuirí Genitive na suirí Dative leis an tsuirí don tsuirí

Derived terms

• éan suirí (“lovebird”)
• páiste suirí (“bastard, love child”)
• plaicín suirí (“hickey”)
• séad suirí (“love-token”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suirí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “suirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “suirí” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “suirí” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46