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).

Noun

cidsin m (genitive singular cidsin, plural cidsinean)

  1. kitchen

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • cistenach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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