glùn

See also: glún

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish glún, dissimilated from earlier Proto-Celtic *gnūnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.

Noun

glùn f (genitive singular glùine, plural glùinean or glùintean)

(anatomy) knee, joint
lap
joint (in a plant's stem)
generation, race
step, degree (in a pedigree)
descendant

Synonyms

(lap): uchd
(generation): ginealach, linn

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
glùn	ghlùn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

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