cingid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kengeti (“tread, step, walk”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“limp”) (compare Old High German hinkan (“to limp”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “I limp”) (from *skn̥gyóh₂)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʲiŋʲɡʲiðʲ]

Verb

cingid (conjunct ·cing, verbal noun céimm)

1. to step, proceed, go

Conjugation

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.	cingiu		cingid	cengmai		cengait	cengair
	conj.			·cing			cengat	·cengar	·cengtar
	rel.			cinges	cingmae		cengtae
imperfect indicative				·cinged			·cingtis
preterite	abs.			cechaing
	conj.			·cechaing
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	abs.		cichsi	cichis	cichsimmi		cichsit
	conj.			·cich			·cichset	·cichsither
	rel.						cichsite
conditional				·cichsed
present subjunctive	abs.							cíasair
	conj.		·céis				·céiset
	rel.						cíastae
past subjunctive				·céised
imperative			cing	cinged
verbal noun		céimm
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·cing

Descendants

• Irish: cinn (“step, walk”)

Mutation

Mutation of cingid

radical	lenition	nasalization
cingid	chingid	cingid 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), “1 cingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language