cóir

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /koːɾʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kɔːɾʲ/

From Proto-Celtic *kowwaris (“just, righful”), from *kom- (“with”) + *wīros (“true”).

cóir f (genitive singular córa, nominative plural córacha)

1. justice, equity
2. proper share, due
3. proper provision; accommodation
4. proper condition
5. proper equipment, (plural) requisites

cóir (genitive singular masculine cóir, genitive singular feminine córa, plural córa, comparative córa)

1. just, proper
2. decent, honest

• cóir máireach
• éagóir

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cóir

1. nearness, proximity (used only in fixed phrases; see Derived terms)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cóir m

1. inflection of cór:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cóir	chóir	gcóir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cóir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cóir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• coair, coïr

From Primitive Irish *ᚉᚑᚃᚐᚏᚔᚄ (*covaris),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *kowwaris (“proper, fitting”), from *kom- (“with”) + Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed”). Cognate with Welsh cywair (“orderly”).^[2]

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /ˈko.irʲ/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːrʲ/

cóir (comparative córu)

1. proper, right, just

   Antonym: écóir

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4^a27

     Coïr irnigde trá in so, act ní chumcam-ni ón, mani thinib in spirut.

     This, then, is the right way to pray, but we cannot do that unless the spirit inspires it.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^d8

     Is dúibsi proficit; ba coïr dúibsi cía do·berthe testas dinni

     It is you that it benefits; it would be right for you if you gave testimony of us.

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cóir	cóir	cóir
Vocative	cóir
Accusative	cóir	cóir
Genitive	cóir	córae	cóir
Dative	cóir	cóir	cóir
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	córai	córai
Vocative	córai
Accusative	córai
Genitive	cóir* córae
Dative	córaib
Notes	*not when substantivized

• écóir

• Middle Irish: cóir
  • Irish: cóir
  • Scottish Gaelic: còir
  • Manx: cair

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cóir	chóir	cóir pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language