ciontas

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

ciontas m (genitive singular ciontais)

1. Alternative form of ciontacht (“guilt, guiltiness”)

Declension

Declension of ciontas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ciontas vocative a chiontais genitive ciontais dative ciontas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ciontas genitive an chiontais dative leis an gciontas don chiontas

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciontas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ciontas	chiontas	gciontas

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciontacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN