cineal

See also: cineál

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cenél (compare Irish cineál), from Proto-Celtic *kenetlom (“family”).

Noun

cineal m (genitive singular cineil, plural cinealan)

1. offspring, progeny
2. sort, species, nature
3. race, tribe, clan, extraction
4. sex, gender
5. kindness

Mutation

Mutation of cineal

radical	lenition
cineal	chineal

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cenél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language