cistin

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Irish

Alternative forms

cisteanach (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Middle Irish cisten (compare Scottish Gaelic cidsin, Manx kishteen, kishtyn), a late form of cistenach, borrowed from Middle English kitchen, kichene, kuchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, borrowed from Vulgar Latin cucīna, from Latin coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈcɪʃtʲənʲ/

Noun

cistin f (genitive singular cistine or cisteanach, nominative plural cistineacha)

kitchen

Declension

Declension of cistin (second declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	cistin	cistineacha
vocative	a chistin	a chistineacha
genitive	cistine	cistineacha
dative	cistin	cistineacha

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an chistin	na cistineacha
genitive	na cistine	na gcistineacha
dative	leis an gcistin don chistin	leis na cistineacha

Alternative declension

Declension of cistin (fifth declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	cistin	cistineacha
vocative	a chistin	a chistineacha
genitive	cistineach	cistineacha
dative	cistin	cistineacha

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an chistin	na cistineacha
genitive	na cistineach	na gcistineacha
dative	leis an gcistin don chistin	leis na cistineacha

Derived terms

cailín cistine (“kitchen-maid, scullery maid”)
cistin phoiblí (“communal kitchen, soup kitchen”)
cistin taistil (“travelling kitchen”)
córacha cistine (“kitchen fitments”)
garraí cistine (“kitchen garden”)
gréithe cistine (“kitchen-ware”)
páipéar cistine (“kitchen paper”)
scúille cistine (“kitchen wench”)
sorn cistine (“cooker, cooking-range, kitchen-range”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *cistin*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cistin	chistin	gcistin

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cistin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cistenach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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