- clann
- children, clan, so Irish, Old Irish cland, Welsh plant, *qlanatâ: Indo-European root qel; Greek $$Gtélos, company; Old Slavonic celjadi$$u, family, Lithuanian kiltis = Lettic zilts, race, stock; Sanskrit kúla, race. Some have added Latin populus. Usually regarded as borrowed from Latin planta, a sprout, English plant, whence Gaelic clannach, comatus.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.