See also: Cing, cíng, and čiŋ

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Nasal variation of cek. Compare Ancient Greek θιγγάνω (thingánō).

Verb edit

cing (aorist cinga, participle cingur)

  1. to touch

Noun edit

cing m (plural cinga, definite cingu, definite plural cingat)

  1. faint noise

See also edit

Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

·cing

  1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of cingid

cing

  1. second-person singular imperative of cingid

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Celtic *kengets.[1]

Noun edit

cing m (genitive cinged)

  1. warrior, champion
    • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Feb. 14; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
      Hi rroí Ualentini, Marcellus ro·ringed; i flaith Chríst, ro·clandad ochtmoga cáin cinged.
      In the field of Valentinus, Marcellus was mangled; in the kingdom of Christ, eighty fair champions have been planted.
Inflection edit
Masculine t-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cing cingidL, cing cingid
Vocative cing cingidL, cing cingeda
Accusative cingidN cingidL, cing cingeda
Genitive cinged cinged cingedN
Dative cingidL cingedaib cingedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Descendants edit
  • Middle Irish: cing

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kenget-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 200

Further reading edit

Romanian edit

Verb edit

cing

  1. inflection of cinge:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative