cuireadh

Irish

Pronunciation
  • Noun:
  • Past autonomous form:
    • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈkɪɾʲəɡ/
    • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈkɪɾʲəvˠ/
    • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈkɪɾʲuː/
    • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɪɾʲu/
  • Past subjunctive and imperative forms:

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cuired, verbal noun of cuirid, in this sense replacing Old Irish tochuiriud.[2][3]

Noun

cuireadh m (genitive singular cuiridh, nominative plural cuirí or curtha or curthacha)

  1. invitation
    • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, section 253, page 91:
      kyrʹuw əNə Nʹɛəstə
      [cuireadh chun an fhéasta]
      an invitation to the feast
Declension
Declension of cuireadh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuireadh cuirí
Vocative a chuiridh a chuirí
Genitive cuiridh cuirí
Dative cuireadh cuirí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cuireadh na cuirí
Genitive an chuiridh na gcuirí
Dative leis an gcuireadh

don chuireadh

 leis na cuirí

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cuireadh

  1. inflection of cuir:
    1. autonomous past indicative
    2. analytic past subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

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

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 91
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuired”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tochuiriud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰuɾʲəɣ/

Noun

cuireadh m (genitive singular cuiridh, plural cuiridhean)

  1. invitation
    thug mi cuireadh dhi ― I invited her
    ghabh i ris a' cuireadh ― she accepted the invitation
    tharraing e an cuireadh ― he withdrew the invitation
  2. inviting
  3. placing, laying
  4. sending
  5. deputation

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cuireadhchuireadh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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