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
    is e seo an cuspair a bu toil leam bruidhinn air ― this is the subject I'd like to talk about
  2. subject (at school)
  3. (grammar) object
  4. (dated) object (of emotion)
    cuspair mo ghràidh ― my lover (literally, “object of my love”)

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

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cuspair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuspóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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