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The English word "clan" is derived from old Irish clann [1] meaning "children", "offspring", "progeny" or "descendants". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "clan" was introduced into English in around 1425, as a descriptive label for the organization of society in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.
Female clan chiefs, chieftains, or the wives of clan chiefs normally wear a tartan sash pinned at their left shoulder. Today, Scottish crest badges are commonly used by members of Scottish clans. However, much like clan tartans , Scottish crest badges do not have a long history, and owe much to Victorian era romanticism , and the dress of the ...
The Irish word clann is a borrowing from the Latin planta, meaning 'a plant, an offshoot, offspring, a single child or children, by extension race or descendants'. [5] For instance, the O'Daly family were poetically known as Clann Dalaigh, from a remote ancestor called Dalach.
A Scottish clan (from Scottish Gaelic clann, literally 'children', more broadly 'kindred' [1]) is a kinship group among the Scottish people. Clans give a sense of shared heritage and descent to members, and in modern times have an official structure recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon, which regulates Scottish heraldry and coats of arms.
Cairn Capercaillie Claymore Trousers Bard [1] The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel".The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek (bardos) and ancient Latin (bardus) writings (e.g. used by the poet Lucan, 1st century AD), which in turn took the ...
A clan is a group of people united by kinship and descent. It may refer to: Clan (African Great Lakes), a unit of social organisation; Chinese clan association, formed by Overseas Chinese based on dialect groups or family names; Irish clan, an Irish family group with a common surname; Japanese clans. a Japanese family group with a common surname
The English term gypsy or gipsy [16] is commonly used to indicate Romani people, [17] and use of the word gipsy in modern-day English is pervasive (and is a legal term under English law—see below), and some Romani organizations use it in their own organizational names, particularly in the United Kingdom.
The English name may be related to the Old English word for a tribal leader, cyning, which derives from the Proto-Germanic kuningaz. [2] The Scottish surname "King" is a sept of the Clan Gregor / MacGregor. King was the 84th most common surname in Ireland according to the 1901 census. [3]