clann

From Old Irish cland (“children, family, offspring”), from Old Welsh plant (“children”), from Latin planta (“shoot, twig, sprout”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠaun̪ˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠan̪ˠ/

clann f (genitive singular clainne, nominative plural clanna)

1. children, offspring
2. race, descendants, clan
3. (historical) followers
4. (literary) plant
5. (of hair) lock
6. (weaving) two interlocked threads on warping frame

• "clann" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “clann” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

clann (verbal noun clannaghey or clanney, past participle clannit)

1. colonize, populate
2. thicken (as liquid)

• clanneyder

From Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.

clann f

1. children
2. family
3. offspring
4. plant

• Irish: clann
• Manx: cloan
• Scottish Gaelic: clann

• “clann” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.

• IPA^(key): /kʰl̪ˠaun̪ˠ/

clann f (genitive singular cloinne)

1. children, offspring, progeny
   • 1993, Dr. Richard Cox, Anne Lorne Gillies, “Speaking our Language 7:1”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     A bheil clann agaibh?

     Do you have children?

   clann an cloinne ― their children’s children

   thoir seo don chloinn ― give this to the children

2. clan, tribe
   • 1882, proverb, A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases : based on Macintosh's collection, page 150:

     Clanna nan Gàidheal an guaillibh a chéile!

     May all the clans stand shoulder to shoulder!

   clann Dòmhnaill ― the MacDonalds

3. lock, ringlet, curl

   na clannaibh ― in [her] curls

4. race

• Often used in the phrase duine cloinne (literally "person of children") to refer to a single child.

• drabasdachd ri cloinn (“child pornography”)
• seòmar-cloinne (“nursery”)
• Sgrìob Chlann Uisnich/Slighe Chlann Uisnich (“the Milky Way”)
• tinneas-cloinne (“childhood disease; childbirth”)

• English: clan
  • Dutch: clan
  • French: clan
    • Portuguese: clã
  • German: Clan
  • Italian: clan
  • Spanish: clan

• leanabh (“child”)

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “clann” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.