cistin

Irish

Alternative forms

• cisteanach (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Middle Irish cisten (compare Scottish Gaelic cidsin, Manx kishteen, kishtyn), a late form of cistenach, borrowed from Middle English kitchen, kichene, kuchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, borrowed from Vulgar Latin cucīna, from Latin coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɪʃtʲənʲ/

Noun

cistin f (genitive singular cistine or cisteanach, nominative plural cistineacha)

1. kitchen

Declension

Declension of cistin (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cistin cistineacha vocative a chistin a chistineacha genitive cistine cistineacha dative cistin cistineacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an chistin na cistineacha genitive na cistine na gcistineacha dative leis an gcistin don chistin leis na cistineacha

Alternative declension

Declension of cistin (fifth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cistin cistineacha vocative a chistin a chistineacha genitive cistineach cistineacha dative cistin cistineacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an chistin na cistineacha genitive na cistineach na gcistineacha dative leis an gcistin don chistin leis na cistineacha

Derived terms

• cailín cistine (“kitchen-maid, scullery maid”)
• cistin phoiblí (“communal kitchen, soup kitchen”)
• cistin taistil (“travelling kitchen”)
• córacha cistine (“kitchen fitments”)
• garraí cistine (“kitchen garden”)
• gréithe cistine (“kitchen-ware”)
• páipéar cistine (“kitchen paper”)
• scúille cistine (“kitchen wench”)
• sorn cistine (“cooker, cooking-range, kitchen-range”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of cistin

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cistin	chistin	gcistin

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) “cistin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cistenach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language