cithréim

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently from the same root as cearr (“injury”) and ciorraigh (“to maim”), though the details are unclear; cognate with Scottish Gaelic ciorram. The adjective cithréimeach is attested earlier, so the noun may be a back-formation.

Pronunciation

Noun

cithréim f (genitive singular cithréime, nominative plural cithréimí)

  1. deformity or injury through maiming
    Timpiste a d’fhág cithréim air.
    He was maimed in an accident.
    (literally, “It was an accident that left a maiming injury on him.”)

Declension

Declension of cithréim (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cithréim cithréimí
vocative a chithréim a chithréimí
genitive cithréime cithréimí
dative cithréim cithréimí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chithréim na cithréimí
genitive na cithréime na gcithréimí
dative leis an gcithréim
don chithréim 		leis na cithréimí

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “cithréim”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 98

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