Cináed is a
Goidelic language
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages ( ga, teangacha Gaelacha; gd, cànanan Goidhealach; gv, çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.
Goidelic languages historically ...
male name, probably derived from the
Brythonic language name Ciniod. The
hypocoristic
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as '' Izzy'' for ...
form may have been Cinadon. It is represented by the later
Scottish name
Kenneth
Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byn ...
and is not derived from the common Gaelic name
Áed. It might refer to:
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Cinioch, son of Luchtren, (died 630s), King of the Picts
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Cináed mac Írgalaig (died 728), High King of Ireland
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Ciniod I of the Picts
Ciniod, Cináed or Cinadhon, son of Uuredech ( sga, Cináed mac Feradaig; en, Kenneth son of Feradach), was king of the Picts from 763 until 775.
It has been supposed that Ciniod's father was the Feradach son of Selbach mac Ferchair, king of D ...
, son of Wrad, (died 775), King of the Picts
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Ciniod II of the Picts, son of Wrad son of Bargoit, (floruit circa 842), King of the Picts
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Cináed mac Conaing (died 851), king of Brega
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Cináed mac Ailpín (died 858), King of the Picts, aka Kenneth MacAlpin or Kenneth I of Scotland
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Cináed Ua Hartacáin (died 975), poet
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Cináed mac Maíl Coluim (died 995), King of Alba
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Cináed mac Duib (died 1005), King of Alba
Etymology
The name ''Cináed'' originates with the
Pictish
Pictish is the extinct Brittonic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited number of geographica ...
name ''Ciniod''.
Although the ''Cin-'' element is uncertain,
the ''-iod'' element may conserve
Proto-Celtic
Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method. Proto-Celti ...
''*jʉ:ð'', meaning "lord" (c.f. Welsh ''Maredudd'').
References
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Gaelic-language given names