corcair

English

Alternative forms

• corkir

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish. Doublet of purple.

Noun

corcair (uncountable)

1. A lichen that produces a purple dye.

Anagrams

• Carrico

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish corcair, from Old Irish corcur; akin to Latin purpura (compare Welsh porffor), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Noun

corcair f (genitive singular corcra)

1. (lichen producing) kind of purple dye

Declension

Declension of corcair (third declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative corcair vocative a chorcair genitive corcra dative corcair forms with the definite article singular nominative an chorcair genitive na corcra dative leis an gcorcair don chorcair

Derived terms

• corcra (“purple”, adjective)
• corcairghorm

Mutation

Mutated forms of corcair

radical	lenition	eclipsis
corcair	chorcair	gcorcair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “corcair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corcair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language