Cináed

Old Irish

Etymology

The traditional derivation from cinid (“to be born, descend from”) + áed (“fire”) is probably a folk etymology; it is more likely to be an adaptation of Pictish *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ (Ciniod).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkʲinaːi̯ð]

Proper noun

Cináed m (genitive Cinaíd)

a male given name from Pictish

Descendants

Irish: Cionaodh
Scottish Gaelic: Cionaodh
- → English: (conflated with Coinneach) Kenneth
→? Old Norse: Kinaðr

Mutation

Mutation of *Cináed*
radical	lenition	nasalization
Cináed	Chináed	Cináed pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic (PhD thesis)‎^[1], University of Glasgow
Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, Maguire, Fidelma (1981) Gaelic Personal Names, Dublin: The Academy Press, →ISBN, page 52
Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, Kate Hardcastle, editor (2006) “Kenneth”, in A Dictionary of First Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.