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

Quotations

• 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Lesson 7, in Learning Irish (overall work in English), 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.

Synonyms

• saghas

Mutation

Mutated forms of cineál

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cineál	chineál	gcineál

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

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