quallian

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”). Cognate with Irish coileán and Scottish Gaelic cuilean.

Noun

quallian m (genitive singular quallianagh, plural quallianyn)

1. puppy, pup

   She quallian jeh'nchied seiy. ― He is a pup of the first litter.

2. whelp
3. cub

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
quallian	whallian	guallian
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), “cuilén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language