cír

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cir"

Mandarin

Romanization

cír (cir², Zhuyin ㄘˊㄦ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詞兒／词儿

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kīnsrā, from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to comb, scratch”), see also Proto-Slavic *kosa (“hair”), Lithuanian kasa (“braid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲiːr/

Noun

cír f

1. comb, rake
2. crest, tip

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	círL	círL	círaH
Vocative	círL	círL	círaH
Accusative	círN	círL	círaH
Genitive	círeH	círL	círN
Dative	círL	círaib	círaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cíor
• Manx: kere, kerey
• Scottish Gaelic: cìr

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cír	chír	cír pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kisra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 204