cúng

See also: cung, cùng, cũng, and cứng

Irish

From Old Irish cumung,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *komingus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂énǵʰus (“tight, painfully constricted”).

cúng (genitive singular masculine cúng, genitive singular feminine cúinge, plural cúnga, comparative cúinge)

Declension of cúng

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	cúng	chúng	cúnga; chúnga²
Vocative	chúng	chúng	cúnga
Genitive	chúng	cúinge	cúnga	cúng
Dative	cúng; chúng¹	chúng	cúnga; chúnga²
Comparative	níos cúinge
Superlative	is cúinge

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cúng	chúng	gcúng
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumung”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 41, page 22
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 167
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 51, page 23

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 供 (“to offer”, SV: cung). Doublet of cung.

cúng