calmane

Manx

Alternative forms

• colmane

Etymology

From Old Irish colmán (“wood-pigeon, ring-dove”).

Noun

calmane m (genitive singular calmane, plural calmaneyn)

1. dove, pigeon

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
calmane	chalmane	galmane
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “colmán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language