coire

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɾʲə/

From Middle Irish coire, from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos.

coire m (genitive singular coire, nominative plural coirí)

1. cauldron, boiler, vat
2. dell, corrie
3. whirlpool
4. crater, pit

• coire bólcain (“(volcanic) crater”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coire f

1. genitive singular of coir (“crime, offence; fault, transgression”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “coire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “coire”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈiː.re/, [koˈiːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈi.re/, [koˈiːre]

coīre

1. present active infinitive of coeō

From Old Irish coire, caire; from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkorʲə/

coire m (genitive coiri, nominative plural coiri)

1. cauldron
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, lines 12–13:

     Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. Dam ocus tinne in cach coiri. In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din chētgabāil iss ed no·ithed.

     [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons. [There was] an ox and a side of bacon in each cauldron. Every man who came along the passage used to put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he brought out at the first taking, that was what he ate.

• Accusative singular: coiri
• Dative singular: coiri
• Nominative plural: coiri, cori

• Irish: coire
• Manx: coirrey
• Scottish Gaelic: coire

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

 

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From Latin cuprum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkujɾe/

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coire m (uncountable)

1. copper

• coira
• coirar
• coirassa
• coirasson
• coirat
• coirenc
• coireta
• coirina

• cuprós

• caire

From Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkorʲe]

coire m (genitive coiri, nominative plural coiri)

1. cauldron

• Middle Irish: coire
  • Irish: coire
  • Manx: coirrey
  • Scottish Gaelic: coire

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

From Middle Irish coire, from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔɾʲə/

coire m (genitive singular coire, plural coireachan)

1. kettle

   cuir air an coire ― put the kettle on

2. cauldron, boiler, vat
   • 1911, Katherine White Grant, Aig Tigh na Beinne, Oban: Hugh MacDonald, page 82:

     Mu dheireadh thubhairt e, "Ciod e'm biadh a tha thu 'bruich 'sa choire mhòir sin air an teine?"

     Finally he said, "What's the food that you are boiling in that big cauldron on the fire?"

3. (geography) dell, corrie
4. whirlpool

From Old Irish caire (“crime, fault, sin”), from Proto-Celtic *kariyā (compare Welsh caredd).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɤɾʲə/

coire f (genitive singular coire, plural coireannan)

1. fault, offense, wrong, trespass, sin

   coire bàis ― a capital crime

   Is iomadh coire a gheibhear air an duine bhochd. ― Many a fault may be found in a poor man.

2. blame, complaint
3. harm, damage

   gach gnè coire ― every kind of damage

• dèan coire (“offend”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “coire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 caire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language