cineál

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cenél (race, kindred, kind, type) (compare Scottish Gaelic cineal, Welsh cenedl (race, nation)), from Proto-Celtic *kenetlom (family).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cineál m (genitive singular cineáil, nominative plural cineálacha)

  1. sort, kind, type
    Synonyms: saghas, sórt, comhchineál
  2. sex, gender
    Synonyms: gnéas, inscne
  3. (biology) variety
  4. (agriculture) variety, strain
    Synonyms: pór, tréithchineál
  5. nature (of materials)
    Synonym: nádúr
  6. form
    Synonym: foirm

Declension

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Derived terms

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Adverb

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cineál

  1. kind of, sort of
    Synonym: saghas
    • 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish: An Introductory Self-Tutor, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
      Tá an cat cineál dall anois ach tá sé glic go leor mar sin féin.
      The cat is kind of blind now, but he’s clever enough all the same.

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cineál chineál gcineál
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cenél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 78
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

Further reading

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