Citations:cóir

Old Irish citations of cóir

‘proper, right, just’

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^d8

  Is dúibsi proficit; ba coïr dúibsi cía do·berthe testas dinni

  It is you that it benefits; it would be right for you if you gave testimony of us.

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^c29

  .i. co n-irmissid taithesc coïr do cach grád et do cach aís.

  i.e. so that you can attain the answer proper to every grade and every age.

• c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, line 433; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

  Mad coïr a ngestae, á rí con·ic talmain, a curpu ro·sóera[e], ro·nóeba[e] a n-anmain!

  If what they prayed be fitting, O King who rules the earth, may you save their bodies, may you sanctify their souls!

• 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. 130^c10

  .i. is anima as choair hi sunt, ní animam rl

  It is anima that is proper here; it is not animam etc.