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cinio.

lunch, dinner (midday meal)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɪnjɔ/North-Wales/ˈkɪnjɔ/South-Wales, colloquial, standard/ˈkɪnɔ/South-Wales, colloquial

  1. lunch, dinner (midday meal)

    masculine

  2. dinner (evening meal)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh kinyaw, from Proto-Brythonic *kinjọ, cognate with or from Latin cēna (“dinner”). Compare Cornish kinnyow. All probably from Proto-Indo-European *kért-sneh₂ (“portion”), from *(s)kert- (“to cut”), from *(s)ker- (compare Lithuanian kérti, Armenian քերթել (kʻertʻel, “to skin”), Sanskrit कृन्तति (kṛntati, “to cut (in pieces)”).

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