ciid

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English

Noun

ciid (plural ciids)

  1. (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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kiyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

ciïd (conjunct ·cí, verbal noun caí)

  1. 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...

Inflection

References

  1. ^ 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

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

Noun

ciid

  1. branch (of a plant)