cland

Old Irish

Alternative forms

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)

  1. 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
  2. family
  3. offspring
  4. 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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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.
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