corcur

== English == === Alternative forms === korkir === Noun === corcur (uncountable) A particular reddish-purple dye. == Old Irish == === Alternative forms === cocuir (St. Gall Priscian glosses misspelling) === Etymology === From Latin purpura. The appearance of /k/ for the original Latin /p/ indicates a very early borrowing before /p/ was reintroduced into Goidelic; probably through a Primitive Irish stage where the Primitive phoneme /kʷ/ was used for this purpose (compare cruimther (“priest”), from Latin presbyter). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkoɾ.kuɾ/ (Blasse) [ˈkoɾ.kuɾ] (Griffith) [ˈkoɾ.køɾ] === Noun === corcur f The colour purple or crimson and their dyes. c. 850–875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 115 ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== corcrae ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: corcair Irish: corcair Scottish Gaelic: corcar === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corcair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language