cing
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Nasal variation of cek. Compare Ancient Greek θιγγάνω (thingánō).
Verb edit
cing (aorist cinga, participle cingur)
- to touch
Noun edit
cing m (plural cinga, definite cingu, definite plural cingat)
See also edit
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
·cing
- third-person singular present indicative conjunct of cingid
cing
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Celtic *kengets.[1]
Noun edit
cing m (genitive cinged)
- 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 | |||
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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:
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Descendants edit
- Middle Irish: cing
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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
- ^ 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
- (warrior): G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian edit
Verb edit
cing
- inflection of cinge: