Noun: clan
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like clan
vaatwasmachine,
hekkensluiter,
urinoir,
whiskey,
internetsite,
internetcafé,
bestemoer,
besteller,
renovatie,
stokstaartje,
benzinestation,
kruipklokje,
bodybuildster,
scharminkel,
vrijbuiter,
server,
serval,
sessie,
seider,
selfie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”). See: English Nouns '
clan', Latin Nouns '
planta'.
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