calan

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.lɑn/

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.”)

   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

     Hwæðer þā welegan nū nǣfre ne hyngre, ne ne þyrste, ne ne cale?

     Do rich people never get hungry, or thirsty, or cold?

Conjugation

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

Conjugation of calan (strong class 6)

Derived terms

• ācalan

Descendants

• Middle English: calen

See also

• hātian (“to be hot”)
• hyngran (“to be hungry”)
• þyrstan (“to be thirsty”)
• wearmian (“to be warm”)
• wlacian (“to be lukewarm”)
• wlǣtian (“to be nauseous”)

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

• Aclan

Volapük

Etymology

From cal +‎ -an.

Noun

calan (nominative plural calans)

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Declension

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

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkalan/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːlan/, /ˈkalan/

Noun

calan m (plural calannau)

1. first day of the month, calends

Derived terms

• Calan Awst
• Calan Gaeaf
• Calan Mai
• calennig (“New Year's gift”)
• Dydd Calan (“New Year's Day”)
• Hen Galan (“Old New Year”)
• Nos Galan (“New Year's Eve”)

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
calan	galan	nghalan	chalan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.l̪an̪/

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