cír

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cir"

Mandarin

cír (cir², Zhuyin ㄘˊㄦ)

From Proto-Celtic *kīnsrā, from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to comb, scratch”), see also Proto-Slavic *kosa (“hair”), Lithuanian kasa (“braid”).

cír f

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cír^L	cír^L	círa^H
Vocative	cír^L	cír^L	círa^H
Accusative	cír^N	cír^L	círa^H
Genitive	círe^H	cír^L	cír^N
Dative	cír^L	círaib	círaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cír	chír	cír pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kisra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 204

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