cineál

See also: cineal

Irish

From Old Irish cenél (“race, kindred, kind, type”) (compare Scottish Gaelic cineal, Welsh cenedl (“race, nation”)), from Proto-Celtic *kenetlom (“family”).^[1]

cineál m (genitive singular cineáil, nominative plural cineálacha)

Declension of cineál

Bare forms:

cineál

kind of, sort of
Synonym: saghas
- 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish: An Introductory Self-Tutor, New Haven, Connecticut: 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.

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cineál	chineál	gcineál
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cenél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 78
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39