Cincís

Irish

Alternative forms

  • Cíncís
  • Cingcís, Cinncís (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish cengciges, from Latin quīnquāgēsima (literally “fiftieth”), as Whitsun is the fiftieth day of the Easter season.[2]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cincís f (genitive Cincíse, nominative plural Cincísí)

  1. Whitsun, Pentecost (Christian festival)

Declension

Declension of Cincís (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative Cincís Cincísí
vocative a Chincís a Chincísí
genitive Cincíse Cincísí
dative Cincís Cincísí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an Chincís na Cincísí
genitive na Cincíse na gCincísí
dative leis an gCincís
don Chincís 		leis na Cincísí

Derived terms

  • cincíseach, Cincíseach

Mutation

Mutated forms of Cincís
radical lenition eclipsis
Cincís Chincís gCincís

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “Cincís”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cingciges”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 121, page 46

Further reading

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