suirí

Irish

Alternative forms

suirghe

Etymology

From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠɪˈɾʲiː/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɪɾʲiː/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɪɾʲi/

Noun

suirí f (genitive singular suirí)

(act of) wooing, courting; courtship
Synonym: cúirtéireacht
sexual intercourse, lovemaking

Declension

Declension of suirí

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	suirí
Vocative	a shuirí
Genitive	suirí
Dative	suirí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an tsuirí
Genitive	na suirí
Dative	leis an tsuirí don tsuirí

Derived terms

éan suirí (“lovebird”)
páiste suirí (“bastard, love child”)
plaicín suirí (“hickey”)
séad suirí (“love-token”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
suirí	shuirí after an, tsuirí	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suirí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “suirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Entries containing “suirí” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “suirí” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46

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