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Cian (Irish:; Old Irish: Cían) is a Gaelic given name meaning "ancient". [1] Cian was the eighth most popular Irish boy's name in Ireland in 2003 [ citation needed ] , and the fourteenth most popular in 2015. [ 2 ]
In Irish mythology, Cian or Cían (Irish pronunciation:), nicknamed Scal Balb, was the son of Dian Cecht, the physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and best known as the father of Lugh Lamhfada. Cían's brothers were Cu, Cethen, and Miach .
The most-notable of these is the -dous puzzle of finding words ending in -dous, which was popular in the 1880s. This took various forms, sometimes simply listing all words or all common words, [ 29 ] [ 30 ] sometimes being posed as a riddle, giving the three common words, tremendous , stupendous , and hazardous , and requesting the rarer fourth ...
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Word chain, also known as grab on behind, last and first, alpha and omega, and the name game, [1] [2] [3] is a word game in which players come up with words that begin with the letter or letters that the previous word ended with.
Ó Cíobháin, originally from Country Kerry, [5] started broadcasting An Taobh Tuathail from RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta 's headquarters in Casla in 1999. [1] The name An Taobh Tuathail translates to English as 'The Other Side', and Ó Cíobháin, who had worked as a music journalist for the publication Fionse, often used this term when describing B-sides. [6]
Afterwards, Lugh joins Cian in performing assassinations and Cian tells him that in order to facilitate his work, Lugh will have to assume a fake identity as a member of the Balor trading family. Cian holds a party to celebrate Lugh's ascension as heir to the House of Tuatha Dé.
Both Georgiev and Duridanov use the comparative linguistic method to decipher ancient Thracian and Dacian names, respectively.. Georgiev argues that one can reliably decipher the meaning of an ancient place-name in an unknown language by comparing it to its successor-names and to cognate place-names and words in other IE languages, both ancient and modern.