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Irish
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
Noun
cistin f (genitive singular cistine or cisteanach, nominative plural cistineacha)
- kitchen
Declension
- Alternative 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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| cistin
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chistin
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gcistin
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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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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