cland

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

    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): /ˈklan̪d̪/

    Noun

    cland f (genitive clainde, nominative plural clanda)

    1. children
      • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10a5
        Mainip in chrud so bid anglan for cland, .i. a lliles dind ancretmiuch bid ancretmech.
        Unless it is in this way, your children will be unclean, i.e. whatever follows the unbelieving will be unbelieving.
      • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19c20
        Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.
        If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.
      • c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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
    2. family
    3. offspring
    4. plant

    Inflection

    Feminine ā-stem
    singular dual plural
    nominative clandL claindL clandaH
    vocative clandL claindL clandaH
    accusative claindN claindL clandaH
    genitive claindeH clandL clandN
    dative claindL clandaib clandaib
    Initial mutations of a following adjective:
    • H = triggers aspiration
    • L = triggers lenition
    • N = triggers nasalization

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Middle Irish: clann
      • Irish: clann
      • Manx: cloan
      • Scottish Gaelic: clann
        • English: clan (see there for further descendants)

    Mutation

    Mutation of cland
    radical lenition nasalization
    cland chland cland
    pronounced with /ɡ-/

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