cidsin
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
- cistin
Etymology
From Middle Irish cisten (compare Irish cistin, Manx kishteen, kishtyn), a late form of cistenach, borrowed from Middle English kitchen, ultimately from Vulgar Latin cucīna (“kitchen”), from Latin coquō (“I cook”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʲʰitʲʃɪn/
Noun
cidsin m (genitive singular cidsin, plural cidsinean)
- kitchen
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| cidsin | chidsin |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “cidsin”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cistenach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language