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cineál

cineál

See also: cineal

Irish

Noun

cineál m (genitive singular cineáil, nominative plural cineálacha)

  1. sort, kind, type
  2. (biology) variety
  3. (agriculture) variety, strain
  4. (of materials) nature
  5. form

Declension

Synonyms

  • (sort, kind, type): sórt, comhchineál
  • (variety, strain): pór, tréithchineál
  • (nature): nádúr
  • (form): foirm

Derived terms

Adverb

cineál

  1. kind of, sort of
    • 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish: An Introductory Self-Tutor, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-04224-8, p. 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.

Mutation

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.