cuspair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuspóir m (“target, purpose, aim, object”) (compare Irish cuspóir), from Latin cuspis f (“point, tip”).

Noun

cuspair m (genitive singular cuspair, plural cuspairean)

  1. subject, topic
  2. subject (at school)
  3. (grammar) object
  4. (dated) object (of emotion)

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

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “cuspóir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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