glùn

See also: glún

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Noun

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

(lap): uchd
(generation): ginealach, linn

Mutation

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

Edward Dwelly (1911) “glùn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 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

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