corcair
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Irish. Doublet of purple.
Noun edit
corcair (uncountable)
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish corcair, from Old Irish corcur; akin to Latin purpura (compare Welsh porffor), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).
Noun edit
corcair f (genitive singular corcra)
Declension edit
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 edit
- corcra (“purple”, adjective)
- corcairghorm
Mutation edit
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 edit
- 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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