cía

Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬), from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  who?

Etymology 1
From (compare 🇨🇬), from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  who? what?
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Air cía dunaibhí do·foirmsed?

Usage notes
The stressed interrogative pronoun cía and its neuter and plural counterparts take:
 * either a relative clause describing an action involving the noun to be identified
 * "sga"

- cia dia·fiachaigedar (Ml. 44b3)


 * or a substantive indicating whose identity is to be found; in this case also the pronoun is understood to contain the copula in it and no overt copula appears
 * "sga"

- cia dune ind inni-sseo (Ml. 35c33)

Pronoun

 * 1)  who? what?
 * 2) * c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, p. 21, paragraph 40, line 536
 * "sga"

- Cía ? Rí ⁊ brithem ⁊ dias i manchuini.


 * "sga"
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- cía·bed


 * 1)  whoever, whatever

Usage notes
The unstressed interrogative pronoun is invariable for gender and number. It is a conjunct particle and so is followed by the dependent form of the verb.

It is used to in fixed phrases to express an interrogative adverb:

Determiner

 * 1) which, what
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- cid ara·torsata


 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- ɔ eperthae cía ⁊ cisí derb thechtas

Adverb

 * 1) wherever
 * 2) however

Etymology 2

 * possibly from the pronoun (Etymology 1).

Conjunction

 * 1) although
 * 2) if, even if
 * 3) that introducing a noun clause