clan

The story

1. Latin · derived fromplanta“shoot, offspring”
2. Old Welsh · derived fromplant
3. Old Irish · derived fromcland
4. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromclann
5. Irish · borrowed fromclann“offspring, children of the family”
6. English todayclan

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.

Words from the same roots