glún

See also: glùn

Irish

Noun

glún f pl

1. genitive plural of glúin

Noun

glún f (genitive singular glúine, nominative plural glúine)

1. Alternative form of glúin

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *glūnos (dissimilated from earlier *gnūnos), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡluːn/

Noun

glún n (genitive glúne or glúnae, nominative plural glúne or glúnae)

1. knee

Declension

Neuter s-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	glúnN	glúnN	glúineL, glúnae
Vocative	glúnN	glúnN	glúineL, glúnae
Accusative	glúnN	glúnN	glúineL, glúnae
Genitive	glúineL, glúnae	glúine, glúnae	glúineN, glúnae
Dative	glúinL	glúinib	glúinib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: glúin
• Manx: glioon
• Scottish Gaelic: glùin

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
glún	glún pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	nglún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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