ciontach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cintach (“guilty, liable, blameworthy; one who is liable, guilty party”); synchronically, ciont (“guilt, crime, sin, fault, blame”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

ciontach (genitive singular masculine ciontaich, comparative ciontaiche)

1. at fault, blameable, culpable, censurable, delinquent, guilty

Noun

ciontach m (genitive singular ciontaich, plural ciontaich)

1. convict, culprit, offender

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
ciontach	chiontach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ciontach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cintach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language