FromOld Irishcuit(“part, portion, share”), fromProto-Celtic*kʷezdis (compareWelshpeth(“thing”),Bretonpezh(“piece”)).Doublet ofpíosa.

• IPA^(key): /kɪdʲ/^[1][2],/kidʲ/^[3]

cuid f (genitive singularcoda,nominative pluralcodannaorcodachaorcodcha)

1. part
2. portion
3. used with non-inalienablemass nouns and pluralcount nouns as a kind ofmeasure word after apossessive pronoun or before agenitive

   mochuid leabhar ―my books (lit. ‘my portion of books’)

   dochuid ceoil ―your music (lit. ‘your portion of music’)

   acuid grianghraf ―her pictures (lit. ‘her portion of pictures’)

   árgcuid físeán ―our videos (lit. ‘our portion of videos’)

   cuid éadaigh Sheáin ―Seán’s clothing (lit. ‘Seán’s portion of clothing’)

   • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, inA Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page196:

     Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne achuid ime.

     A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.

• The measure-word meaning ofcuid is not generally used with inalienable nouns like relatives and body parts (legs, hands, etc.):
  • deartháireacha an bhuachalla ―the boy’s brothers (not *cuid deartháireacha an bhuachalla)
  • mo chosa ―my legs (not *mo chuid cosa)
• However,cuid may be used with hair, teeth etc.
  • do chuid gruaige ―your hair
  • a chuid fiacla ―his teeth

• Ulster genitive singular:codach
• Alternative plural forms:codacha,codcha

• anchuid(“excessive amount”)
• caolchuid(“lesser part”)
• mórchuid(“large amount, greater amount”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuid”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN

• IPA^(key): /kyjd/

cuid

1. first-personsingularpresent ofcuidar

FromOld Irishcuit(“part, portion, share”), fromProto-Celtic*kʷezdis (compareWelshpeth(“thing”),Bretonpezh(“piece”)).Doublet ofpìos.

• IPA^(key): /kʰutʲ/

cuid f (genitive singularcodach,pluralcodaichean)

1. part,portion,share,ingredient

• Sometimes used where English uses pronoun:

  cuid dhiubh ―some of them (literally "part of them")

  a’chuid eile ―the others (literally "the other part")

• an dà chuid(“both”)
• an dara cuid(“either (conjunction)”)
• aon chuid(“either (conjunction)”)
• cuideigin(“somebody”)

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