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

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cineal	chineal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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