cland
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- clann
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Welsh plant (with phonemic substitution of /p/ with /k/ as the former was not a phoneme of Primitive Irish), from Latin planta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klan͈d/
Noun
cland f (genitive clainde, nominative plural clanda)
- children
- c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129c8
- in tan ṁberes claind, is fáilid íar sin
- when she bears children, she is joyous after that
- c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129c8
- family
- offspring
- plant
Inflection
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | clandL | claindL | clanda |
| Vocative | clandL | claindL | clanda |
| Accusative | claindN | claindL | clanda |
| Genitive | clainde | clandL | clandN |
| Dative | claindL | clandaib | clandaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
- clannmar
Descendants
- Middle Irish: clann
- Irish: clann
- Manx: cloan
- Scottish Gaelic: clann
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| cland | chland | cland pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||