glùn
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)
- (anatomy) knee, joint
- lap
- joint (in a plant's stem)
- generation, race
- step, degree (in a pedigree)
- descendant
Synonyms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| glùn | ghlùn |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “glùn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns
- gd:Anatomy