clan: [14] The immediate source of clan is naturally enough Gaelic, but ultimately it comes, somewhat unexpectedly, from Latin, for etymologically it is the same word as plant. Scots Gaelic clann originally meant ‘offspring’ (hence the modern meaning ‘family group’), and it came from Old Irish cland, a direct borrowing from Latin planta (the Celtic languages of the British Isles tended to change Latin /p/ to /k/).
This was the source of English plant, but it did not then have nearly such a broad application; it meant specifically ‘shoot suitable for planting out’, and the connotations of ‘new growth’ and ‘offspring’ show up in the Gaelic borrowing. => plant
clan (n.)
early 15c., from Gaelic clann "family, stock, offspring," akin to Old Irish cland "offspring, tribe," both from Latin planta "offshoot" (see plant (n.)). The Goidelic branch of Celtic (including Gaelic) had no initial p-, so it substituted k- or c- for Latin p-. The same Latin word in (non-Goidelic) Middle Welsh became plant "children."
例文
1. The men mustered before their clan chiefs.
男たちが族長たちの前に集まった。
2.one of a growing clan of stars who have left Hollywood
ハリウッドの連中が増えているスターの一員から離脱した
3.The Chinese Christians，therefore，practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan .
だから、中国のキリスト教徒はまるで自分の家族から追放されたようだ。
4.She ranks as my junior in the clan .
彼女の世代は私より小さい。
5.Joseph Kennedy，the clan 's patriarch，communicated with Bobby in a series of notes.