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 I ...

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 byna ...

and is not derived from the common Gaelic name Áed. It might refer to: *

Cinioch Cinioch, named Cínaed mac Luchtren in the Irish Annals, was king of the Picts, in modern Scotland, from circa 616 to 631, when his death is reported in the Annals of Ulster, the Annals of Tigernach and the Chronicon Scotorum. According to the ...

, son of Luchtren, (died 630s), King of the Picts *

Cináed mac Írgalaig Cináed mac Írgalaig (died 728) or Cináed Cáech, "the one-eyed", was an Irish King of Brega who was High King of Ireland. Background Cináed was the son of Írgalach mac Conaing (died 702), a previous King of Brega. He belonged to the Uí Chon ...

(died 728), High King of Ireland *

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 *

Ciniod II of the Picts Ciniod (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cináed'') was king of the Picts, in modern Scotland, ruling circa 843. His family's claim may not have been uncontested, and it did not endure. According to the Pictish Chronicle, he was the son of Uurad Uurad or ...

, son of Wrad son of Bargoit, (floruit circa 842), King of the Picts *

Cináed mac Conaing Cináed mac Conaing (died 851) was King of Knowth in the medieval Irish province of Mide, succeeding his father Conaing mac Flainn in 849. Cináed's family belonged to the Knowth, or Uí Chonaing, branch of the Síl nÁedo Sláine, part of the so ...

(died 851), king of Brega *

Cináed mac Ailpín Kenneth MacAlpin ( mga, Cináed mac Ailpin, label=Medieval Gaelic, gd, Coinneach mac Ailpein, label=Modern Scottish Gaelic; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), King of the Picts (843–858), and the King ...

(died 858), King of the Picts, aka Kenneth MacAlpin or Kenneth I of Scotland *

Cináed Ua Hartacáin Cináed is a Goidelic language male name, probably derived from the Brythonic language name Ciniod. The hypocoristic form may have been Cinadon. It is represented by the later Scottish name Kenneth and is not derived from the common Gaelic name ...

(died 975), poet *

Cináed mac Maíl Coluim Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ( gd, Coinneach mac Mhaoil Chaluim, label= Modern Scottish Gaelic, anglicised Kenneth II, and nicknamed , "The Fratricidal"; died 995) was King of Scots (''Alba'') from 971 to 995. The son of Malcolm I (Máel Coluim mac ...

(died 995), King of Alba *

Cináed mac Duib Cináed mac Duib ( Modern Gaelic: ''Coinneach mac Dhuibh''; c. 966 – c. 25 March 1005), anglicised as Kenneth III, and nicknamed ''An Donn'' ("the Chief" or "the Brown"), was King of Scots from 997 to 1005. He was the son of Dub (Dub mac Maíl ...

(died 1005), King of Alba

Etymology

The name ''Cináed'' originates with the

Pictish Pictish is the extinct language, 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 num ...

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 Linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed through the compar ...

''*jʉ:ð'', meaning "lord" (c.f. Welsh ''Maredudd'').

References

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