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Galician
Verb
calan
- third-person plural present indicative of calar
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kalan, from Proto-Germanic *kalaną (“to be cold”). Cognate with Old Norse kala (“to be cold”).
Pronunciation
Verb
calan
- (intransitive) to be or get cold (impersonal, with dative or accusative of person)
Mē cælþ.- I'm cold.
- (literally, “(To) me (it) is cold.”)
Conjugation
infinitive
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calan
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calenne
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indicative mood
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present tense
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past tense
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first person singular
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—
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—
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second person singular
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—
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—
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third person singular
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cæleþ, cælþ
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cōl
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plural
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—
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—
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subjunctive
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present tense
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past tense
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singular
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cale
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cōle
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plural
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—
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—
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imperative
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singular
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—
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plural
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—
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participle
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present
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past
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calende
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(ġe)cælen, (ġe)calen
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Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Somali
Noun
calan ?
- flag
- Synonym: calanka
Spanish
Verb
calan
- third-person plural present indicative of calar
Tagalog
Noun
calán (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜈ᜔)
- Obsolete spelling of kalan.
Anagrams
Volapük
Etymology
From cal + -an.
Noun
calan (nominative plural calans)
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Declension
declension of calan
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh kalan, from Proto-Brythonic *kalann (compare Cornish and Breton kalan), from Vulgar Latin *calandae, from Latin kalendae (“calends”).
Pronunciation
Noun
calan m (plural calannau)
- first day of the month, calends
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “calan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
West Makian
Etymology
See cognate Ternate cala for more.
Pronunciation
Numeral
calan
- thousand
- calan lo awoisiwe lo siwe ― one thousand and ninety-nine
Usage notes
This serves as a numeral root. For the specific number one thousand (1000), the forms calan minye or calannye must be used.
References
- F. S. Watuseke (1982) West Makian, a Language of the North-Halmahéra Group of the West-Irian Phylum, Anthropological Linguistics
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics