cúng

See also: cung, cùng, cũng, and cứng

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cumung,[1] from Proto-Celtic *komingus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂énǵʰus (“tight, painfully constricted”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cúng (genitive singular masculine cúng, genitive singular feminine cúinge, plural cúnga, comparative cúinge)

  1. narrow
    Synonym: caol
  2. (nominalized, masculine) narrow part

Declension
Declension of cúng
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative cúng chúng cúnga;
chúnga²
Vocative chúng cúnga
Genitive cúinge cúnga cúng
Dative cúng;
chúng¹		 chúng cúnga;
chúnga²
Comparative níos cúinge
Superlative is cúinge

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cúng chúng gcúng
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cumung”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 41, page 22
  3. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 167
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 51, page 23

Further reading

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 供 (“to offer”, SV: cung). Doublet of cung.

Pronunciation

Verb

cúng

  1. (religion, occult) to give offerings, to enshrine, to worship

Derived terms
Derived terms
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