corcur

English

Alternative forms

Noun

corcur (uncountable)

  1. A particular reddish-purple dye.

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • cocuir (St. Gall Priscian glosses misspelling)

Etymology

From Latin purpura. The appearance of /k/ for the original Latin /p/ indicates a very early borrowing before /p/ was reintroduced into Goidelic; probably through a Primitive Irish stage where the Primitive phoneme /kʷ/ was used for this purpose (compare cruimther (“priest”), from Latin presbyter).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkorkur/

Noun

corcur f

  1. The colour purple or crimson and their dyes.
    • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 115
      .i. donaib caircib .i. ar is dilus bis forsnaib caircib do·gnither in chorcur buide.
      From the crags, i.e. because it is from a plant that lives on the crags that the yellowish purple is made.

Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative corcurL — —
Vocative corcurL — —
Accusative corcuirN — —
Genitive corcraeH — —
Dative corcuirL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms
  • corcrae

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: corcair
    • Irish: corcair
    • Scottish Gaelic: corcar

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
corcur chorcur corcur
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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