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Cailean
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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From a dialectal form of gd cuilean pup, youth, trickster, from gd mga Cuilén, from gd sga cuilén pup, cub, from gd cel-pro *kolignos whelp, possibly of non-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
gd /ˈkʰalan/
Proper noun
m -ein
gd male Old Irish Colin, though they are etymologically unrelated
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