ciontach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cintach (“guilty, liable, blameworthy; one who is liable, guilty party”). By surface analysis, cion (“guilt, crime, sin, fault, blame”) +‎ -(t)ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ciontach (genitive singular masculine ciontaigh, genitive singular feminine ciontaí, plural ciontacha, comparative ciontaí)

  1. at fault, blameable, culpable, censurable, delinquent, guilty

Declension

Declension of ciontach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative ciontach chiontach ciontacha;
chiontacha2
vocative chiontaigh ciontacha
genitive ciontaí ciontacha ciontach
dative ciontach;
chiontach1 		chiontach;
chiontaigh (archaic) 		ciontacha;
chiontacha2
Comparative níos ciontaí
Superlative is ciontaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

ciontach m (genitive singular ciontaigh, nominative plural ciontaigh)

  1. convict, culprit, offender

Declension

Declension of ciontach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ciontach ciontaigh
vocative a chiontaigh a chiontacha
genitive ciontaigh ciontach
dative ciontach ciontaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ciontach na ciontaigh
genitive an chiontaigh na gciontach
dative leis an gciontach
don chiontach 		leis na ciontaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciontach
radical lenition eclipsis
ciontach chiontach gciontach

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cintach (“guilty, liable, blameworthy; one who is liable, guilty party”). By surface analysis, ciont (“guilt, crime, sin, fault, blame”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ciontach (genitive singular masculine ciontaich, comparative ciontaiche)

  1. at fault, blameable, culpable, censurable, delinquent, guilty

Derived terms

Noun

ciontach m (genitive singular ciontaich, plural ciontaich)

  1. convict, culprit, offender

Mutation

Mutation of ciontach
radical lenition
ciontach chiontach

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ciontach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cintach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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