coire

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkiɾʲə/^[1]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɾʲə/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾʲə/^[3]

From Middle Irish coire, from Old Irish coire,^[4] 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”)

Alteration under folk etymology of Anglo-Norman coriandre, from Latin coriandrum, from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron), alternative form of κορίαννον (koríannon).

coire m (genitive singular coire)

1. only used in lus an choire (“coriander”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coire f

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

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “coire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 228; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “coire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “coire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “coire”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koˈiː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈiː.re]

coīre

1. inflection of coëō:
   1. second-person singular present passive indicative/imperative
   2. present active infinitive

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾʲə/

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

From Latin cuprum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkujɾe/

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coire m (uncountable)

1. copper

• cuprós

• caire

From Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ɾʲe/

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 Old Irish coire,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos.

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔðə/^[2]
• (Uist, Skye, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔɾʲə/^[3][4][5]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔɾʲʌ/^[6]
• (South Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰoɾə/^[5], [ˈkʰoˀɾɪ]^[7]

coire m (genitive singular coire, plural coireachan)

1. kettle

   Synonym: (Argyll) ceatal

   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”),^[8] from Proto-Celtic *kariyā (compare Welsh caredd).

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaðə/^[9]
• (Uist, Skye, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɤɾʲə/^{[10][11][12][13]}
• (Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɤɾʲʌ/^[14]
• (South Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰʏɾə/, [ˈkʰʏˀɾɪ]^[15]

coire f (genitive singular coire, plural coireannan)

1. fault, offense, wrong, trespass, sin

   coire bàis ― a capital crime

   Proverb: 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

• coireach (“guilty, at fault”)
• dèan coire (“offend”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “coire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN