quallian

Manx

From Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”). Cognate with Irish coileán and Scottish Gaelic cuilean.

quallian m (genitive singular quallianagh, plural quallianyn)

puppy, pup
She quallian jeh'nchied seiy. ― He is a pup of the first litter.
whelp
cub

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
quallian	whallian	guallian
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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