cineál
See also: cineal
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cenél (“race, kindred, kind, type”) (compare Scottish Gaelic cineal, Welsh cenedl (“race, nation”)), from Proto-Celtic *kenetlom (“family”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Munster" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /cɪˈnʲɑːl̪ˠ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Connacht" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈcɪnˠɑːlˠ/ (as if spelled cionál)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Ulster" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈcɪnʲælˠ/
Noun
cineál m (genitive singular cineáil, nominative plural cineálacha)
- sort, kind, type
- Synonyms: sórt, comhchineál
- (biology) variety
- (agriculture) variety, strain
- Synonyms: pór, tréithchineál
- (of materials) nature
- Synonym: nádúr
- form
- Synonym: foirm
Declension
Declension of cineál
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- an cineál baineann, an cineál banda (“the fair sex”)
- aonchineálach (“homogeneous”, adjective)
- aonchineálacht (“homogeneity”)
- croschineálach (“hybrid”, adjective)
- daorchineálach (“member of subject tribe”)
- díchineálacht (“degeneracy”)
- ilchineálach (“heterogeneous, various, varied, multifarious, diverse”, adjective)
- pischineálach (“legume”)
- pischineálach (“leguminous”, adjective)
- sochineálach (“of good breed or quality”, adjective)
- tréithchineál (“strain”)
Adverb
cineál
- kind of, sort of
- 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish: An Introductory Self-Tutor, Yale University Press, →ISBN, p. 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.
- Tá an cat cineál dall anois ach tá sé glic go leor mar sin féin.
- 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish: An Introductory Self-Tutor, Yale University Press, →ISBN, p. 34:
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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