Cailean

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰalan/

Proper noun

Cailean m (genitive Cailein, vocative a Chailein)

1. a male given name from Old Irish, equivalent to English Colin, though they are etymologically unrelated

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “Cailean”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN