écóir
Old Irish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈeːɡoːrʲ]
Adjective
écóir
- incongruous, at variance [with 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. 14d10
- 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.
- 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. 14d10
- unjust, improper
Inflection
| 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 | ||
*not when substantivized
Descendants
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| écóir (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
écóir | n-écóir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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