different between coix vs coir

English

Etymology

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Noun

coix (uncountable)

1. An East Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, sometimes harvested as a cereal.

Anagrams

• oxic

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin c?xus (“lame”), from Latin coxa. Compare Spanish cojo, Portuguese coxo, Aragonese coixo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ko?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?koj?/

Adjective

coix (feminine coixa, masculine plural coixos, feminine plural coixes)

1. lame
2. wobbly (due to one leg being shorter)

Further reading

• “coix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coix” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kóïx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.iks/, [?ko?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.iks/, [?k??iks]

Noun

coix f (genitive coicis); third declension

1. a kind of Ethiopian palm

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Coix

References

• coix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• caire

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam ???? (kaya??).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Homophone: coyer

Noun

coir (countable and uncountable, plural coirs)

1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cori, RICO

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cair, caire, from Old Irish caire (“crime, fault, sin”), from Proto-Celtic *kariy? (compare Welsh caredd).

Noun

coir f (genitive singular coire, nominative plural coireanna)

1. crime, offence; fault, transgression
2. (used mainly in negative, of state) harm

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish coirid (“tires”), from cor m (“act of tiring; tiredness, fatigue”).

Verb

coir (present analytic coireann, future analytic coirfidh, verbal noun cor, past participle cortha)

1. (transitive, intransitive) tire, exhaust

Conjugation

Etymology 3

See coirigh.

Verb

coir (present analytic coireann, future analytic coirfidh, verbal noun {{{vn}}}, past participle {{{pp}}})

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of coirigh (“accuse, criminate”)

Conjugation

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

coir m

1. inflection of cor (“turn, turning movement; cast; haul from cast; lively turn; lively air; reel”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nonstandard nominative/dative plural

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

coir m

1. inflection of cor (“agreement, contract; guarantee, pledge”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Etymology 6

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

coir m

1. vocative/genitive singular of cor (“tiredness, exhaustion.”)

Mutation

References

• "coir" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 caire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 coirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “coir” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “coir” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Irish

Adjective

coïr

1. Alternative form of cóir

Mutation

Walloon

Noun

coir m

1. body