Cináed is a

Goidelic language The Goidelic ( ) or Gaelic languages (; ; ) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from Ireland through the Isl ...

male name, probably derived from the Brythonic language name Ciniod. The

hypocoristic A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; 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 Isabel or '' Bob'' for Robert, or it ...

form may have been Cinadon. It is represented by the later

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

name

Kenneth Kenneth is a given name of Gaelic origin. 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, son of Luchtren, (died 630s), King of the Picts * Cináed mac Írgalaig (died 728), High King of Ireland * Ciniod I of the Picts, son of Wrad, (died 775), King of the Picts * Ciniod II of the Picts, son of Wrad son of Bargoit, (floruit circa 842), King of the Picts * Cináed mac Conaing (died 851), king of Brega *

Cináed mac Ailpín Kenneth MacAlpin (; ; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin. According to the traditional account, he inherited the throne of Dál Riada from his ...

(died 858), King of the Picts, aka Kenneth MacAlpin or Kenneth I of Scotland * Cináed Ua Hartacáin (died 975), poet * Cináed mac Maíl Coluim (died 995), King of Alba * Cináed mac Duib (died 1005), King of Alba

Etymology

The name ''Cináed'' originates with the

Pictish Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic 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 geog ...

name ''Ciniod''. Although the ''Cin-'' element is uncertain, the ''-iod'' element may conserve

Proto-Celtic Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical 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 throu ...

''*jʉ:ð'', meaning "lord" (cf. Welsh ''Maredudd''). {{DEFAULTSORT:Cinaed Gaelic-language given names