scoir
See also: scóir
Irish
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish scuirid (“unyokes; encamps, comes to a halt; releases, sets free; stops, brings to an end, finishes; ceases, desists, comes to a halt”).
Verb
editscoir (present analytic scoireann, future analytic scoirfidh, verbal noun scor, past participle scortha)
- (transitive)
- (intransitive)
- (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of scor (“cut, slash, slice; score, notch”)
Conjugation
editconjugation of scoir (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Etymology 2
editSee scor.
Noun
editscoir
Further reading
edit- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “scoir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “scoir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scuirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language