ciach

See also: Ciach

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ciəx/

Etymology 1

Noun

ciach m (genitive singular ciaigh)

  1. hoarseness
  2. gloom, sadness, grief
Declension
Declension of ciach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative ciach
vocative a chiaigh
genitive ciaigh
dative ciach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an ciach
genitive an chiaigh
dative leis an gciach
don chiach
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ciach

  1. (archaic, dialectal) genitive singular of ceo (“fog, mist”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciach
radical lenition eclipsis
ciach chiach gciach

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

Polish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ɕax/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ax
  • Syllabification: ciach
  • Homophone: Ciach

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

ciach

  1. (colloquial) used to describe a situation where someone cuts something with a decisive move
  2. (colloquial) used to describe a situation in which some action was performed at lightning speed
  3. (Near Masovian) used to imitate the sound of hitting or beating
    Synonyms: chrop, dzbęk
Derived terms
verbs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ciach n

  1. genitive plural of ciacho

Further reading

  • ciach in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ciach in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “ciach”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 363
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