cuspair
التعريفات والمعاني
== 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)
subject, topic
is e seo an cuspair a bu toil leam bruidhinn air ― this is the subject I'd like to talk about
subject (at school)
(grammar) object
(dated) object (of emotion)
cuspair mo ghràidh ― my lover (literally, “object of my love”)
=== Mutation ===
=== Further reading ===
Edward Dwelly (1911), “cuspair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuspóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language