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)

1. (anatomy) knee, joint
2. lap
3. joint (in a plant's stem)
4. generation, race
5. step, degree (in a pedigree)
6. descendant

Synonyms

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

Mutation

Mutation of glùn

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

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