coirm

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cuirm, from Proto-Celtic *kurmi. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cuirm.

Pronunciation
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /kɞɾʲəmʲ/

Noun

coirm f (genitive singular coirme, nominative plural coirmeacha)

  1. feast, banquet
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 162:
      kivnīm gərəb ē šin køŕm̥ n̥ l̄ē rugəv ē.
      [Cuimhním gurb é sin coirm an lae a rugadh é.]
      I remember it was his birthday party.
  2. ale, beer

Declension
Declension of coirm

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coirm coirmeacha
Vocative a choirm a choirmeacha
Genitive coirme coirmeacha
Dative coirm coirmeacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an choirm na coirmeacha
Genitive na coirme na gcoirmeacha
Dative leis an gcoirm

don choirm

 leis na coirmeacha

Synonyms

Derived terms

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

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