goirt

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡɔɾˠtʲ/, /ɡɪɾˠtʲ/

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

  1. salty, bitter, brackish
  2. painful
Declension
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.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

goirt m

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

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
goirt ghoirt ngoirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡor͈ʲtʲ/

Adjective

goirt

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

Derived terms
  • gorte

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
goirt goirt
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/		 ngoirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔrt͡ʃʲ/

Noun

goirt (comparative goirte)

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

Declension
Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative goirt ghoirt goirt
Vocative ghoirt ghoirt goirte
Genitive ghoirt goirte/ghoirt goirt
Dative ghoirt ghoirt goirt

Derived terms
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