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Old Irish
Etymology
é- + cóir
Pronunciation
Adjective
écóir
- incongruous, at variance
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d10
Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.- It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.
- unjust, improper
Inflection
| i-stem
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| Singular
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Masculine
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Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
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écóir
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écóir
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écóir
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| Vocative
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écóir
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| Accusative
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écóir
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écóir
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| Genitive
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écóir
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écórae
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écóir
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| Dative
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écóir
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écóir
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écóir
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| Plural
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Masculine
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Feminine/neuter
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| Nominative
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écórai
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écórai
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| Vocative
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écórai
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| Accusative
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écórai
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| Genitive
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écóir*
écórae
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| Dative
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écóraib
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| Notes
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*not when substantivized
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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écóir
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-écóir
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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