ciid
English edit
Noun edit
ciid (plural ciids)
- (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 edit
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *kiyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ciïd (conjunct ·cí, verbal noun caí)
- to cry, weep
- c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 161
- 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...
- c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 161
Inflection edit
Simple, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||||
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*ki-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 205
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ciïd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Sakizaya edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ciid
- branch (of a plant)