cuin

From Proto-Celtic *kʷani.^[1] Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis. Cognate with Welsh pan (“when”, conjunction), Cornish pan (“when”, conjunction) Breton pa (“when”, conjunction). Compare also Latin quando, Proto-Germanic *hwan (“when”).

• IPA^(key): [kunʲ]

cuin

1. when

   Cuin do·rega?

   When will he come?

• cíachuin
  • Classical Gaelic: cá chuin
    • Irish: cathain

• Scottish Gaelic: cuin

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• cuine

From Old Irish cuin.

• IPA^(key): /kʰuɲ/

cuin

1. (interrogative) when (at what time)

   Cuin a bhios tu deiseil? - When will you be ready?

   Chan eil fhios agam cuin a dh'fhalbhas e. - I don't know when he will leave.

• If followed by the future tense, the relative future tense is used.

• ge be cuin