glùn

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See also: glún

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. (anatomy) knee, joint
  2. lap
  3. joint (in a plant's stem)
  4. generation, race
  5. step, degree (in a pedigree)
  6. descendant

Synonyms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “glùn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “glún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language