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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.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cincís f (genitive Cincíse, nominative plural Cincísí)
- Whitsun, Pentecost (Christian festival)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| Cincís
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Chincís
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gCincís
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “Cincís”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cingciges”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 121, page 46
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