cloan

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

• IPA^(key): [klɔːn]

cloan f (genitive singular clienney, no plural)

1. children

   Çhymnee eh da cloan ny clienney eu. ― Pass it down to your children's children.

   Ta saynt shiaght saggyrt ayns dooinney gyn cloan. ― A man without children has the lust of seven parsons.

   T'ee er ruggaghtyn ymmodee cloan. ― She has borne many children.

   T'ee brey clienney. ― She is bearing children.

   T'ee moir ny clienney. ― She is the mother of the children.

2. descendants(s)

• lhiass-chloan f (“stepchildren”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• cloant (literary)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈklɔ.an/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkloː.an/, /ˈklɔ.an/

cloan

1. third-person plural future colloquial of cloi