Cincís

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Irish

Alternative forms

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Cincís Chincís gCincís
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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