còrr

excess, overplus, Irish corr; Gaelic corr, odd, Irish cor, corr, odd; also Irish corr, snout, corner, point, Early Irish corr, rostrum, corner. The Early Irish corr, rostrum, has been referred by Zimmer and Thurneysen to corr, crane - the name of "beaked" bird doing duty for "beak". The modern meanings of "excess, odd" (cf. odd of English, which really means "point, end") makes the comparison doubtful. Refer it rather to kors-, stick out, point, head; Greek $$Gkórsc, head; stem keras-; Latin crista, English crest; further is Greek $$Gkéras, horn, Latin cerebrum, Norse hjarsi, crown of the head; and also còrn, horn, q.v. Hence corran, headland.