cainéal

Irish

Alternative forms

• caineal, cainel, cainél, caineul, cainnéal, canel (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English canel, from Old French canele, from Medieval Latin canella, a diminutive of canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

Noun

cainéal m (genitive singular cainéil)

1. cinnamon

Declension

Declension of cainéal (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cainéal vocative a chainéil genitive cainéil dative cainéal forms with the definite article case singular nominative an cainéal genitive an chainéil dative leis an gcainéal don chainéal

Etymology 2

From Middle English canel (variant of chanel), from Anglo-Norman canel, from Old French chanel, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”) (see Etymology 1 above). Doublet of canáil.

Noun

cainéal m (genitive singular cainéil, nominative plural cainéil)

1. channel (for water)
2. (broadcasting) channel (on television etc.)

   Synonym: bealach

Declension

Declension of cainéal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cainéal cainéil vocative a chainéil a chainéala genitive cainéil cainéal dative cainéal cainéil forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cainéal na cainéil genitive an chainéil na gcainéal dative leis an gcainéal don chainéal leis na cainéil

Mutation

Mutated forms of cainéal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cainéal	chainéal	gcainéal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “cainéal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cainél “cinnamon””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cainnéal “channel””, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 106
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cainéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN