Talk:cigire

User:Mahagaja: w:Ghost word says, citing O'Reilly + Ár dtéarmaí féin, that this "was invented by the scholar Tadhg Ua Neachtain, who misread cighim (pronounced [ˈciːmʲ], like modern cím) in Edward Lhuyd's Archaeologia Britannica as cigim [ˈcɪɟɪmʲ], and so constructed the verbal forms cigire, cigireacht, cigirim etc. from it." An Irish forum quotes Tomás De Bhaldraithe's 1987 English-Irish Dictionary as also explicitly saying this, but I can't see a preview. Do you have access to any of these sources or others which might confirm or dispute this? - -sche (discuss) 19:00, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi, it's in footnote 2 of the preface to de Bhaldraithe's dictionary, which you can see at [1]. Ghost word or not etymologically, it's a well established word of Irish now, easily citable. —Mahāgaja · talk 10:22, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! I figured it was established by now, I just figured the etymology could be filled out, and possibly categorized (inspired by this poorly-titled Info desk section). - -sche (discuss) 05:10, 30 September 2020 (UTC)