ciota

Irish

Etymology

From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Cognate with English kit (“circular wooden vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈcɯt̪ˠə/

Noun

ciota m (genitive singular ciota, nominative plural ciotaí)

1. wooden mug

Declension

Declension of ciota (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ciota ciotaí vocative a chiota a chiotaí genitive ciota ciotaí dative ciota ciotaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ciota na ciotaí genitive an chiota na gciotaí dative leis an gciota don chiota leis na ciotaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciota

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ciota	chiota	gciota

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

Further reading

• “ciota”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ciota”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciota”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Back-formation from ciotka.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɔ.ta/

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɔ.ta/
  • (Central Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɔ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: cio‧ta

Noun

ciota f

1. (offensive) homosexual or effeminate man; fag; faggot
2. (colloquial) menstruation

   Synonyms: ciotka, menstruacja, miesiączka, period, okres

3. (obsolete or dialectal, Central Greater Poland) female foreteller or witch doctor
4. (obsolete) maternal aunt
5. (Kuyavia, derogatory) Augmentative of ciotka

Declension

Declension of ciota

	singular	plural
nominative	ciota	cioty
genitive	cioty	ciot
dative	ciocie	ciotom
accusative	ciotę	cioty
instrumental	ciotą	ciotami
locative	ciocie	ciotach
vocative	cioto	cioty

Further reading

• ciota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ciota in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Józef Bliziński (1860) “ciota”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 621
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “ciota”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 269
• “ciota”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary wielkopolskiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 8, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, 1916, page 95