calan

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Galician

Verb

calan

  1. 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

  1. (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

Conjugation of calan (strong class 6)
infinitive calan calenne
indicative mood present tense past tense
first person singular — —
second person singular — —
third person singular cæleþ, cælþ cōl
plural — —
subjunctive present tense past tense
singular cale cōle
plural — —
imperative
singular —
plural —
participle present past
calende (ġe)cælen, (ġe)calen

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: calen

See also

Somali

Noun

calan ?

  1. flag
    Synonym: calanka

Spanish

Verb

calan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of calar

Tagalog

Noun

calán (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. Obsolete spelling of kalan.

Anagrams

Volapük

Etymology

From cal +‎ -an.

Noun

calan (nominative plural calans)

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Declension

declension of calan
singular plural
nominative calan calans
genitive calana calanas
dative calane calanes
accusative calani calanis
vocative 1 o calan! o calans!
predicative 2 calanu calanus
  • 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)

  1. first day of the month, calends

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of calan
radical soft nasal aspirate
calan galan nghalan chalan

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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

  1. 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
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