cooyrt

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish cúirt,[1] from Middle English court, from Old French cort, from Late Latin cōrs, contraction of Latin cohors. Replaced Old Irish coirt, which was borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate with Irish cúirt and Scottish Gaelic cùirt.

Noun

cooyrt f (genitive singular cooyrtey, plural cooyrtyn)

  1. court

Mutation

Mutation of cooyrt
radical lenition eclipsis
cooyrt chooyrt gooyrt

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

References

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