clann

clann (plural clanns)

1. Obsolete spelling of clan.

From Old Irish cland (“children, family, offspring”),^[1] from Old Welsh plant (“children”), from Latin planta (“shoot, twig, sprout”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠɑun̪ˠ/^[2]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /klˠɑːn̪ˠ/, /kl̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /klˠan̪ˠ/, /kl̪ˠan̪ˠ/

clann f (genitive singular clainne, nominative plural clanna)

1. (collective) children
2. clan

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

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

• clanneyder

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
clann	chlann	glann
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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
  • → English: clan (see there for further descendants)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Irish clann, from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, borrowed from Latin planta.

• IPA^(key): /kʰl̪ˠaun̪ˠ/^[1]

clann f

1. children, offspring, progeny

   clann an cloinne ― their children’s children

   Thoir seo don chloinn! ― Give this to the children!

   • 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?

2. clan, tribe

   clann Dòmhnaill ― the MacDonalds

   • 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 Highlander clans stand shoulder to shoulder!

3. race
4. lock, ringlet, curl (of hair)

   na clannaibh ― in [her] curls

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

• Alternative genitive singular: cloinneadh

• → English: clan (see there for further descendants)

• leanabh (“child”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “clann”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Colin Mark (2003) “clann”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 139
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language