Cailean
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From a dialectal form of cuilean (“pup, youth, trickster”), from Middle Irish Cuilén, from Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”), possibly of non-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Cailean m (genitive Cailein, vocative a Chailein)
- a male given name from Old Irish, equivalent to English Colin, though they are etymologically unrelated
References edit
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “Cailean”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN