cír

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cir"

Mandarin

Romanization

cír (cir², Zhuyin ㄘˊㄦ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詞兒 / 词儿

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kīnsrā, from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to comb, scratch”), see also Proto-Slavic *kosa (“hair”), Lithuanian kasa (“braid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲiːr/

Noun

cír f

1. comb, rake
2. crest, tip

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	círL	círL	círaH
vocative	círL	círL	círaH
accusative	círN	círL	círaH
genitive	círeH	círL	círN
dative	círL	círaib	círaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cíor
• Manx: kere, kerey
• Scottish Gaelic: cìr

Mutation

Mutation of cír

radical	lenition	nasalization
cír	chír	cír pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kisra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 204