écóir

Old Irish

Etymology

é- +‎ cóir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈeːɡoːrʲ]

Adjective

écóir

1. incongruous, at variance (fri (“with”))
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14^d10

     Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.

     It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.

2. unjust, improper

Inflection

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	écóir	écóir	écóir
Vocative	écóir
Accusative	écóir	écóir
Genitive	écóir	écórae	écóir
Dative	écóir	écóir	écóir
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	écórai	écórai
Vocative	écórai
Accusative	écórai
Genitive	écóir* écórae
Dative	écóraib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Descendants

• Irish: éagóir

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
écóir	unchanged	n-écóir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éccóir, éccáir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language