cúng

See also: cung, cùng, cũng, and cứng

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /kuːŋ(ɡ)/, [kũːŋ(ɡ)]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /kuːn̪ˠ/, [kũːn̪ˠ][1] (as if spelled cúnn)

Adjective

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

  1. narrow
    Synonym: caol

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

Noun

cúng m (genitive singular cúing, nominative plural cúing)

  1. narrow, narrow part

Declension
Declension of cúng

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cúng cúing
Vocative a chúing a chúnga
Genitive cúing cúng
Dative cúng cúing

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cúng na cúing
Genitive an chúing na gcúng
Dative leis an gcúng

don chúng

 leis na cúing

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. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, 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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