Noun: cistin
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | cistin |
| Singular Genitive | cistine |
| Plural Nominative | cistineacha |
| Plural Genitive | cistineacha |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an chistin |
| Singular Genitive | na cistine |
| Plural Nominative | na cistineacha |
| Plural Genitive | na gcistineacha |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cistin
ainnir,
aisghairm,
bainis,
bruthcharraig,
cairt,
carraig,
ceirt,
ceolchoirm,
cistin,
cling,
clúid,
comaoin,
cuing,
círéib,
cóilis,
deilbh,
ding,
dris,
dronuillinn,
dín, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Irish cisten (compare Scottish Gaelic cidsin, Manx kishteen, kishtyn), a late form of cistenach, borrowed from Middle English kichene, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, borrowed from Vulgar Latin cucīna, from Latin coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). See: Middle English Nouns '
kichene', Old English Nouns '
cyċen', Latin Nouns '
coquō'.
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