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cenedl

Pronunciation: /ˈkɛnɛdl/

“cenedl” is a Welsh word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. nation
  2. tribe, clan, kindred
  3. generation
  4. sort, species, kind
  5. ethnicity
  6. gentile
  7. gender (of nouns, adjectives etc.)

Etymology

From Middle Welsh kenedyl, from Old Welsh kenedel (“kindred, family to the ninth degree of kinship”), from Proto-Brythonic *kenedl, from Proto-Celtic *kenetlom (“family”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken-.

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