"olann" meaning in Irish

See olann in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɞl̪ˠən̪ˠ/ [Munster], /ˈolˠən̪ˠ/ [Connacht], /ˈɔlˠən̪ˠ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Old Irish olann, from Proto-Celtic *ulanā, a sandhi variant of *wlanā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan, Cornish gwlan, Gaulish *wlanā (“wool”)). Etymology templates: {{root|ga|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=wool}}, {{inh|ga|sga|olann}} Old Irish olann, {{ref|<span class="cited-source">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class="None" lang="und">2019), “olann”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>}}, {{inh|ga|cel-pro||*ulanā}} Proto-Celtic *ulanā, {{inh|ga|ine-pro|*h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂, {{cog|cy|gwlân}} Welsh gwlân, {{cog|br|gloan}} Breton gloan, {{cog|kw|gwlan}} Cornish gwlan, {{cog|cel-gau|*wlanā||wool}} Gaulish *wlanā (“wool”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|olla|or|olainne|||||nominative plural|olanna|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|var=}} olann f (genitive singular olla or olainne, nominative plural olanna), {{ga-noun|f|olla|olanna|gen2=olainne}} olann f (genitive singular olla or olainne, nominative plural olanna) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: olla [genitive, singular], olainne [genitive, singular], olanna [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an olann [definite, nominative, singular], na holanna [definite, nominative, plural], na holla [definite, genitive, singular], na n-olann [definite, genitive, plural], leis an olann [dative, definite, singular], don olann [dative, definite, singular], leis na holanna [dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], olann [error-unrecognized-form], n-olann [eclipsis], holann [error-unrecognized-form], - [error-unrecognized-form], olainn [alternative]
  1. wool Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-olann-ga-noun-~rZyoubq
  2. woolly hair, mop of hair Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-olann-ga-noun-H8fhWfO9 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Fabrics, Hair Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92 Disambiguation of Fabrics: 13 87 Disambiguation of Hair: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: olanda (english: woolly), olann chadáis (english: cotton-wool) [feminine], olannacht (english: woolliness), olanntáirgeach (english: wool-bearing), tuirne olla (english: woolwheel), úr olla (english: wool-grease), úsc olla (english: wool-fat, lanolin)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "woolly",
      "translation": "woolly",
      "word": "olanda"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "cotton-wool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "translation": "cotton-wool",
      "word": "olann chadáis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "woolliness",
      "translation": "woolliness",
      "word": "olannacht"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "wool-bearing",
      "translation": "wool-bearing",
      "word": "olanntáirgeach"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "woolwheel",
      "translation": "woolwheel",
      "word": "tuirne olla"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "wool-grease",
      "translation": "wool-grease",
      "word": "úr olla"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "wool-fat, lanolin",
      "translation": "wool-fat, lanolin",
      "word": "úsc olla"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "olann",
      "olann#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "*wlanā",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wlanā"
    ],
    [
      "*h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂"
    ],
    [
      "gwlân",
      "gwlân#Welsh"
    ],
    [
      "gloan",
      "gloan#Breton"
    ],
    [
      "gwlan",
      "gwlan#Cornish"
    ],
    [
      "*wlanā",
      "Reconstruction:Gaulish/wlana"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂welh₁-",
        "id": "wool"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "olann"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish olann",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<span class=\"cited-source\">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">2019), “olann”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*ulanā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *ulanā",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "gwlân"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh gwlân",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "br",
        "2": "gloan"
      },
      "expansion": "Breton gloan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kw",
        "2": "gwlan"
      },
      "expansion": "Cornish gwlan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cel-gau",
        "2": "*wlanā",
        "3": "",
        "4": "wool"
      },
      "expansion": "Gaulish *wlanā (“wool”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish olann, from Proto-Celtic *ulanā, a sandhi variant of *wlanā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan, Cornish gwlan, Gaulish *wlanā (“wool”)).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "olla",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olainne",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olanna",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na holanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na holla",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na n-olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na holanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olann",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-olann",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holann",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olainn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "olanna",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "olla",
        "5": "or",
        "6": "olainne",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "var": ""
      },
      "expansion": "olann f (genitive singular olla or olainne, nominative plural olanna)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "olla",
        "3": "olanna",
        "gen2": "olainne"
      },
      "expansion": "olann f (genitive singular olla or olainne, nominative plural olanna)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "wool"
      ],
      "id": "en-olann-ga-noun-~rZyoubq",
      "links": [
        [
          "wool",
          "wool"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Fabrics",
          "orig": "ga:Fabrics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "ga:Hair",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "woolly hair, mop of hair"
      ],
      "id": "en-olann-ga-noun-H8fhWfO9",
      "links": [
        [
          "woolly",
          "woolly"
        ],
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ],
        [
          "mop",
          "mop"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɞl̪ˠən̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈolˠən̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔlˠən̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "olann"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish feminine nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish second-declension nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂welh₁- (wool)",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ga:Fabrics",
    "ga:Hair"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "woolly",
      "translation": "woolly",
      "word": "olanda"
    },
    {
      "english": "cotton-wool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "translation": "cotton-wool",
      "word": "olann chadáis"
    },
    {
      "english": "woolliness",
      "translation": "woolliness",
      "word": "olannacht"
    },
    {
      "english": "wool-bearing",
      "translation": "wool-bearing",
      "word": "olanntáirgeach"
    },
    {
      "english": "woolwheel",
      "translation": "woolwheel",
      "word": "tuirne olla"
    },
    {
      "english": "wool-grease",
      "translation": "wool-grease",
      "word": "úr olla"
    },
    {
      "english": "wool-fat, lanolin",
      "translation": "wool-fat, lanolin",
      "word": "úsc olla"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "olann",
      "olann#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "*wlanā",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wlanā"
    ],
    [
      "*h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂"
    ],
    [
      "gwlân",
      "gwlân#Welsh"
    ],
    [
      "gloan",
      "gloan#Breton"
    ],
    [
      "gwlan",
      "gwlan#Cornish"
    ],
    [
      "*wlanā",
      "Reconstruction:Gaulish/wlana"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂welh₁-",
        "id": "wool"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "olann"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish olann",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<span class=\"cited-source\">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">2019), “olann”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*ulanā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *ulanā",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "gwlân"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh gwlân",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "br",
        "2": "gloan"
      },
      "expansion": "Breton gloan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kw",
        "2": "gwlan"
      },
      "expansion": "Cornish gwlan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cel-gau",
        "2": "*wlanā",
        "3": "",
        "4": "wool"
      },
      "expansion": "Gaulish *wlanā (“wool”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish olann, from Proto-Celtic *ulanā, a sandhi variant of *wlanā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan, Cornish gwlan, Gaulish *wlanā (“wool”)).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "olla",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olainne",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olanna",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na holanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na holla",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na n-olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don olann",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na holanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olann",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-olann",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holann",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "olainn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "olanna",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "olla",
        "5": "or",
        "6": "olainne",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "var": ""
      },
      "expansion": "olann f (genitive singular olla or olainne, nominative plural olanna)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "olla",
        "3": "olanna",
        "gen2": "olainne"
      },
      "expansion": "olann f (genitive singular olla or olainne, nominative plural olanna)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "wool"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wool",
          "wool"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "woolly hair, mop of hair"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "woolly",
          "woolly"
        ],
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ],
        [
          "mop",
          "mop"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɞl̪ˠən̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈolˠən̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔlˠən̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "olann"
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "olann"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "olann",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: olann/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "olann"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "olann",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: olann/Irish 'with h-prothesis' base_tags={'eclipsis', 'error-unrecognized-form'}",
  "path": [
    "olann"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "olann",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: olann/Irish 'with t-prothesis' base_tags={'eclipsis', 'error-unrecognized-form'}",
  "path": [
    "olann"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "olann",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "page/20250114",
  "msg": "Negatively nested table braces, couldn't split inflection section, olann/Irish section declension",
  "path": [
    "olann"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "olann",
  "trace": ""
}

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