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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish scuirid (“unyokes; encamps, comes to a halt; releases, sets free; stops, brings to an end, finishes; ceases, desists, comes to a halt”).
Verb
scoir (present analytic scoireann, future analytic scoirfidh, verbal noun scor, past participle scortha)
- (transitive)
- unyoke, unharness
- disconnect, detach
- separate, take apart
- release, dismiss
- stop, terminate
- (intransitive)
- come to a halt, stop, rest
- cease, desist
- disintegrate
- (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of scor (“cut, slash, slice; score, notch”)
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Etymology 2
See scor.
Noun
scoir
- vocative/genitive singular of scor
Further reading
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scuirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language