kistvaen

[ kist-vahyn ]

noun

1. cist ².

Word History and Origins

Origin of kistvaen¹

1705–15; < Welsh cist faen stone coffin, equivalent to cist coffin ( cist ² ) + faen, lenited form of maen stone; menhir

Example Sentences

Traces of old habitation abound; there are many barrows and one perfect kistvaen.

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And in their sleep, Lludd folded the covering around them, and in the securest place he had in Snowdon, he hid them in a kistvaen.

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The Leacht seems to have been a larger-sized kistvaen, a cromlech or dolmen, but a single upright stone was also called a leacht.

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The Cnoc was a rounded, sugar-loaf mound of earth, and the Duma was a similar mound raised over a kistvaen.

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One ruined cairn with a kistvaen in it is still called "The Crock of Gold," but probably bronze was the metal chiefly found.

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