cían
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kēnos.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cían
- far, distant
- long-lasting
- 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. 28c25
- Nípi cían a masse in choirp.
- The beauty of the body is not long-lasting.
- 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. 28c25
Declension
o/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | cían | cían | cían |
Vocative | céin* cían** | ||
Accusative | cían | céin | |
Genitive | céin | céine | céin |
Dative | cían | céin | cían |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | céin | cíana | |
Vocative | cíanu cíana† | ||
Accusative | cíanu cíana† | ||
Genitive | cían | ||
Dative | cíanaib | ||
Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative |
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cían | chían | cían pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Verb
cían