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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /cɪˈnʲɑːl̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈcɪnˠɑːlˠ/ (as if spelled cionál)
• (Ulster) 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. nature (of materials)

   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

   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

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
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cineál”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cineál”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024