glúin

See also: glùin

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish glún, dissimilated from earlier Proto-Celtic *gnūnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with Breton glin (knee), Scottish Gaelic glùin and Welsh glin (knee), and further English knee, Latin genū (knee).

Pronunciation

Noun

glúin f (genitive singular glúine, nominative plural glúine)

  1. (anatomy) knee
  2. generation

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
glúin ghlúin nglúin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡluːnʲ/

Noun

glúin

  1. dative singular of glún

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
glúin glúin
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/
nglúin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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