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Old Irish
Etymology
The traditional derivation from cinid (“to be born, descend from”) + áed (“fire”) is probably a folk etymology; it is more likely to be an adaptation of Pictish *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ (Ciniod).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cináed m (genitive Cinaíd)
- a male given name from Pictish
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| Cináed
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Chináed
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Cináed
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic (PhD thesis), University of Glasgow
- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, Maguire, Fidelma (1981) Gaelic Personal Names, Dublin: The Academy Press, →ISBN, page 52
- Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, Kate Hardcastle, editor (2006) “Kenneth”, in A Dictionary of First Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.