Galician

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Verb

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calan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of calar

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *kalan, from Proto-Germanic *kalaną (to be cold). Cognate with Old Norse kala (to be cold).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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calan

  1. (intransitive) to be or get cold (impersonal, with dative or accusative of person)
    cælþ.
    I'm cold.
    (literally, “(To) me (it) is cold.”)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: calen

See also

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Somali

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Noun

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calan ?

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    Synonym: calanka

Spanish

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Verb

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calan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of calar

Tagalog

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Noun

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calán (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. Obsolete spelling of kalan.

Anagrams

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Volapük

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Etymology

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From cal +‎ -an.

Noun

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calan (nominative plural calans)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

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Welsh

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Etymology

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From Middle Welsh kalan, from Proto-Brythonic *kalann (compare Cornish and Breton kalan), from Vulgar Latin *calandae, from Latin kalendae (calends).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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calan m (plural calannau)

  1. first day of the month, calends

Derived terms

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Mutation

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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

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  • 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

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Etymology

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See cognate Ternate cala for more.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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calan

  1. thousand
    calan lo awoisiwe lo siweone thousand and ninety-nine

Usage notes

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This serves as a numeral root. For the specific number one thousand (1000), the forms calan minye or calannye must be used.

References

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  • F. S. Watuseke (1982) West Makian, a Language of the North-Halmahéra Group of the West-Irian Phylum[1], Anthropological Linguistics
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics