corcair
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish
Noun
corcair (uncountable)
Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish corcair; akin to Latin purpura (compare Welsh porffor), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).
Noun
corcair f (genitive singular corcra)
Declension
Declension of corcair
Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- corcra (“purple”, adjective)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
corcair | chorcair | gcorcair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “corcair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corcair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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