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cistvaen

cistvaen is the alternative form of kistvaen.

Meaning of kistvaen

Noun

kistvaen (plural kistvaens)

  1. A stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones.
    • 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.1913, Arthur L. Salmon, Dartmoor

Forms of cistvaen

pluralcistvaens

Questions about cistvaen

What is cistvaen the alternative form of?
Cistvaen is the alternative form of kistvaen.

Words near cistvaen in the dictionary

  1. cists
  2. cistula
  3. cistulae
  4. cistus
  5. cistuses
  6. cistvaen
  7. cistvaens
  8. Cisuralian
  9. cisvestism
  10. cisvestite
  11. cisvestites

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