cinio

See also: činio

Welsh

From Middle Welsh kinyaw, from Proto-Brythonic *kinjọ, cognate with or from Latin cēna (“dinner”).^[1] Compare Cornish kinnyow. All probably from Proto-Indo-European *kért-sneh₂ (“portion”), from *(s)kert- (“to cut”), from *(s)ker- (compare Lithuanian kérti, Armenian քերթել (kʻertʻel, “to skin”), Sanskrit कृन्तति (kṛntati, “to cut (in pieces)”).^[2]

(North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪnjɔ/
(South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪnjɔ/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪnɔ/

cinio m (plural ciniawau)

As in Welsh English, the word cinio (“dinner”) usually applies to the midday meal, but can sometimes refer to an evening meal.

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cinio	ginio	nghinio	chinio
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 75 iii (1)
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106