ciid

See also: Ciid

English

Noun

ciid (plural ciids)

1. (zoology) Any beetle in the family Ciidae.
   • 2012, Jogeir N. Stokland, Juha Siitonen, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Biodiversity in Dead Wood, page 175:

     However, Paviour-Smith (1960) was the first to draw attention to the more general host-use patterns of ciids. She noticed that the beetle species and the host fungi divided into two mutually exclusive breeding groups, […]

Anagrams

• idic

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kiyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲi.əðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈkʲi.ɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈkʲi.ɨðʲ]

Verb

ciïd (conjunct ·cí, verbal noun caí)

1. to cry, weep
   • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, line 161; published in Kathleen Mulchrone, transl., Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick, Hodges, Figgis, 1939:

     Do·rala co n-erbailt a aiti isin dáil. Ro·sochtsat na huile di hein. Ro·chíset a c[h]omnestai ⁊ ro·chain a chommám...

     It happened that his foster father died at the meeting. Everybody became silent from that. His kinsmen wept, and his wife wailed...

Inflection

Simple, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.		cíi	ciïd			ciït
	conj.			·cí	·ciam		·ciat
	rel.			cías
imperfect indicative				·cíad			·cetis
preterite	abs.			cích
	conj.							·ciad
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·cích
	prot.
future	abs.	ciche					cichit
	conj.
	rel.				cichme
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.			·cia
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative			cí, cíi
verbal noun		caí
past participle
verbal of necessity

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ciïd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡si.ˈid/, [t͡ɕi.ˈid]

Noun

ciid

1. branch (of a plant)