cineál

See also: cineal

Irish

Alternative forms

• cinéal, cineul (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cɪˈnʲɑːl̪ˠ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈcɪnˠɑːlˠ/ (as if spelled cionál)
• IPA^(key): /ˈcɨ̞nʲalˠ/; /ˈcɨ̞nˠalˠ/ (as if spelled cionál)

Noun

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. (of materials) nature

   Synonym: nádúr

6. form

   Synonym: foirm

Declension

Declension of cineál

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cineál cineálacha Vocative a chineáil a chineálacha Genitive cineáil cineálacha Dative cineál cineálacha

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cineál na cineálacha Genitive an chineáil na gcineálacha Dative leis an gcineál don chineál leis na cineálacha

Derived terms

• aonchineálach
• aonchineálacht
• cineál baineann
• cineál banda
• cineálta
• cineáltas
• croschineálach
• daorchineálach
• díchineálacht
• ilchineálach
• pischineálach
• sochineálach
• tréithchineál

 

Adverb

cineál

1. kind of, sort of
   • 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.

   Synonym: saghas

Mutation

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cineál”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cenél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cineál”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cineál”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024