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

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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

• 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.

• écóir

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

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