ciid
English
Noun
ciid (plural ciids)
- (zoology) Any beetle in the family Ciidae.
- 2012, Jogeir N. Stokland, Juha Siitonen, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Biodiversity in Dead Wood, page 175:
- However, Paviour-Smith (1960) was the first to draw attention to the more general host-use patterns of ciids. She noticed that the beetle species and the host fungi divided into two mutually exclusive breeding groups, […]
Anagrams
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kiyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʲi.əðʲ/, [ˈkʲi.ɨðʲ]
Verb
ciïd (conjunct ·cí, verbal noun caí)
- to cry, weep
- c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 161
- Do·rala co n-erbailt a aiti isin dáil. Ro·sochtsat na huile di hein. Ro·chíset a c[h]omnestai ⁊ ro·chain a chommám...
- It happened that his foster father died at the meeting. Everybody became silent from that. His kinsmen wept, and his wife wailed...
- c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 161
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*ki-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 205
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ciïd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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