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goirt

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish goirt (“bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen”).[2]

Adjective

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goirt (genitive singular feminine goirte, plural goirte, comparative goirte)

  1. salty, bitter, brackish
  2. painful
Declension
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Declension of goirt
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative goirt ghoirt goirte;
ghoirte2
vocative ghoirt goirte
genitive goirte goirte goirt
dative goirt;
ghoirt1 		ghoirt goirte;
ghoirte2
Comparative níos goirte
Superlative is goirte

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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goirt m

  1. inflection of gort:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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Mutated forms of goirt
radical lenition eclipsis
goirt ghoirt ngoirt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “goirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *gʷereti, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷorti-, a variant of *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), if the meaning developed from "hot."[1] MacBain prefers a derivation from *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”).[2] Both roots have compared to German garstig (“nasty, rude”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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goirt

  1. bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen
  2. hungry, starved

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: goirt
  • Manx: gort
  • Scottish Gaelic: goirt

Mutation

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Mutation of goirt
radical lenition nasalization
goirt goirt
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ 		ngoirt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “gʷero”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 146
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “goirt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish goirt (“bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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goirt (comparative goirte)

  1. sore
  2. sour, tart, acidulous
  3. stale

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  4. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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