cid

See also: Cid, CID, and cíd

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid (compare *kʷis); compare Latin quid, Cornish pyth, Welsh pa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲið/

Pronoun

cid

  1. (interrogative) what?
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12c22
      Ro·cluinethar cách in fogur et nícon·ḟitir cid as·beir.
      Everyone hears the sound and does not know what it says.

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cid chid cid
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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