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écóir

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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é- +‎ cóir

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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écóir

  1. 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.
  2. unjust, improper

Inflection

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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

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  • Irish: éagóir
  • Manx: aggair
  • Scottish Gaelic: eucoir

Mutation

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Mutation of écóir
radical lenition nasalization
écóir
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged 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

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