cing

See also: Cing, cíng, and čiŋ

Albanian

Etymology

Nasal variation of cek. Compare Ancient Greek θιγγάνω (thingánō).

Verb

cing (aorist cinga, participle cingur)

1. to touch

Noun

cing m (plural cinga, definite cingu, definite plural cingat)

1. faint noise

See also

• cekë
• cingëroj

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲiŋʲɡʲ/

Etymology 1

Verb

·cing

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of cingid

cing

1. second-person singular imperative of cingid

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *kengets.^[1]

Noun

cing m (genitive cinged)

1. warrior, champion
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Feb. 14; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     Hi rroí Ualentini, Marcellus ro·ringed; i flaith Chríst, ro·clandad ochtmoga cáin cinged.

     In the field of Valentinus, Marcellus was mangled; in the kingdom of Christ, eighty fair champions have been planted.

Inflection

Masculine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cing	cingidL, cing	cingid
Vocative	cing	cingidL, cing	cingeda
Accusative	cingidN	cingidL, cing	cingeda
Genitive	cinged	cinged	cingedN
Dative	cingidL	cingedaib	cingedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: cing

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cing	ching	cing pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kenget-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 200

Further reading

• (warrior): Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Verb

cing

1. inflection of cinge:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative