Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kistvaen

/ˈkɪstvaɪn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kist-vaen
IPA: /ˈkɪstvaɪn/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones.

Example Sentences

"It was man of the New Stone Age who first peopled this upland, leaving remains of his hut-dwellings, his pounds, dolmens, and menhirs, his kistvaens and his cooking-holes."

Etymology

From Welsh cistfaen, from cist (“chest”) + maen (“stone”).

Origin

Source language: Welsh

Word Breakdown

Root: cistfaen

Inflected Forms

kistvaens (plural) cistvaen (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

cist

Questions

How do you pronounce kistvaen?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɪstvaɪn/.
What does kistvaen mean?: A stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones.
Where does kistvaen come from?: It is traced to Welsh.

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