ceann, g. cinn, d. cionn, pl. cinn, poet. ceanna, m., a head; end, limit (in time, place); one single person or object, in phr. "the first one"; cause, account; ceann fearainn (or cinn fhearainn), a headland; ceann eile, another one; ceann aca, one of them; ceann ar cheann (or ar ceann), one after another; ceann faoi, dejection, humiliation, reproach, dire poverty, adversity; ceann trágha, strand's end (in place names); with a, i, or ar, and verb of motion, usually = to or for: im' cheann, to me, before me; faoi (fá) cheann, within (a certain time), at the end of, after; i gceann, at the end of, head of; in front of; in regard to, to, for; i n-a cheann, over him, against him; ar an cheann is faide, at farthest (of time) (Don.); tar cheann, over, besides, beyond; for the sake of, instead of, in preference to; in spite of, notwithstanding, in opposition to; with go, although; um cheann, in reference to; do cheann go, because, by reason of; do cheann mar, for the reason that, because; ceann ar aghaidh, headlong; i gceann a chéile, together; do thuit sé i gceann a chos, he fell in the direction of his feet, collapsed; go ceann bliadhna, a year hence; go ceann i bhfad, for a long time; in sp. l., dat. often ceann.