cuit
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).
Pronunciation
Participle
cuit (feminine cuida, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuides)
- past participle of coure
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cuit, from Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɥi/
Audio: (file) Audio (Canada): (file) - Rhymes: -ɥi
Adjective
cuit (feminine cuite, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuites)
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
cuit
- third-person singular present indicative of cuire
Participle
cuit (feminine cuite, masculine plural cuits, feminine plural cuites)
- past participle of cuire
Further reading
- “cuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Luiseño
Alternative forms
- kwit (Juaneño)
Noun
cuit
- (Luiseño) male-bodied person who lives as a woman and practices feminine activities (and may marry a man), traditionally regarded as strong and hence as particularly desirable as a wife, especially for a chief
See also
References
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (2010, →ISBN)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French cuit, from Latin coctus, perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).
Verb
cuit
- past participle of cuire
Adjective
cuit m
Old French
Verb
cuit
- first-person singular present indicative of cuidier
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (compare Welsh peth (“thing”), Breton pezh (“piece”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kudʲ/
Noun
cuit f
- part, portion, share
- property, possession, means
- partiality, love for a person
- portion of food, (evening) meal
Inflection
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | cuit | cuitL | cuitiH |
vocative | cuit | cuitL | cuitiH |
accusative | cuitN | cuitL | cuitiH |
genitive | cotoH, cotaH | cotoH, cotaH | cuiteN |
dative | cuitL | cuitib | cuitib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
- ar chuit
- cuit adaill
- cuitigid
Descendants
Mutation
radical | lenition | nasalization |
---|---|---|
cuit | chuit | cuit pronounced with /ɡ-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language