ceist

From Old Irish ceist, from Latin quaestiō.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /cɛʃtʲ/^[2]

ceist f (genitive singular ceiste, nominative plural ceisteanna)

1. question [with ar ‘for’]

   Tá ceist agam ort.

   I have a question for you.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceist”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ceist”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ceist”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From Latin quaestiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲesʲtʲ/

ceist f (genitive cestae, nominative plural cesti)

1. question
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^d11

     Amal du·berad nech hi ceist do Dauid: “Húare is móir sléb fírinne Dǽ, cid ara fodmai-siu, ⟨a⟩ Dauid, didiu a ndu imnedaib ⁊ frithoircnib fodaimi? Air it fírián-⟨s⟩u.” Ícaid-som didiu anísin, a n-as·mbeir iudicia Domini abisus multa .i. ataat mesai Dǽ nephchomtetarrachti amal abis ⁊ amal fudumain. Is ed in sin fod·era in n-erígim, cid ara fodaim int aís fírián inna fochaidi, ⁊ cid ara mbiat in pecthaig isnaib soinmechaib.

     As though someone had put as a question to David: “Because God’s righteousness is as great as a mountain, why then, David, dost thou suffer what of afflictions and injuries thou sufferest? For thou art righteous.” He solves that then when he says “iudicia Domini abyssus multa”, i.e. there are judgments of God incomprehensible like an abyss and like a depth. That is what causes the complaint why the righteous folk endure tribulations, and why sinners are in prosperity.

• Irish: ceist
• Manx: keisht
• Scottish Gaelic: ceist

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceist”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish ceist, from Latin quaestiō.

• IPA^(key): [kʰʲeʃtʲ]

ceist f (genitive singular ceiste, plural ceistean)

1. question

   Bu toigh leam beagan cheistean a chur air an duine sin. ― I would like to ask that man a few questions.

   Cha robh ceist air a chur air. ― No question had been put to him.

2. problem, dispute, controversy

   tha, gun cheist ― yes, indeed, undoubtedly

3. darling

   tha, a cheist ― yes, darling

4. regard
5. anxiety
6. puzzle

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ceist”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceist”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language