ciid

See also: Ciid

English

Noun

ciid (plural ciids)

  1. (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)

  1. 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...

Inflection

Simple, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs. cíi ciïd ciït
conj. ·cí ·ciam ·ciat
rel. cías
imperfect indicative ·cíad ·cetis
preterite abs. cích
conj. ·ciad
rel.
perfect deut. ro·cích
prot.
future abs. ciche cichit
conj.
rel. cichme
conditional
present subjunctive abs.
conj. ·cia
rel.
past subjunctive
imperative , cíi
verbal noun caí
past participle
verbal of necessity

References

  1. ^ 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

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡si.ˈid/, [t͡ɕi.ˈid]

Noun

ciid

  1. branch (of a plant)