cidsin

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cisten (compare Irish cistin, Manx kishteen, kishtyn), a late form of cistenach, borrowed from Middle English kitchen, ultimately from Vulgar Latin cucīna (“kitchen”), from Latin coquō (“I cook”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʲʰitʲʃɪn/

Noun

cidsin m (genitive singular cidsin, plural cidsinean)

  1. kitchen

Mutation

Mutation of cidsin
radical lenition
cidsin chidsin

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cidsin”, 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), “cistenach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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