corcair

English

Alternative forms

• corkir

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish. Doublet of purple.

Noun

corcair (uncountable)

1. A lichen that produces a purple dye.

Anagrams

• Carrico

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish corcair, from Old Irish corcur; akin to Latin purpura (compare Welsh porffor), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Noun

corcair f (genitive singular corcra)

1. (lichen producing) kind of purple dye

Declension

Declension of corcair

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative corcair Vocative a chorcair Genitive corcra Dative corcair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an chorcair Genitive na corcra Dative leis an gcorcair don chorcair

Derived terms

• corcra (“purple”, adjective)
• corcairghorm

Mutation

Irish mutation
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