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clannaid

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Russell (Paul): Horticultural genealogy and genealogical horticulture: the metaphors of W. plant and OIr. cland.
In Rhetoric and reality in medieval Celtic literature [Melia studies] (2014), pp. 155–172.
Discusses the origin of the post-classical senses (‘plant’ and ‘offspring’) with which Lat. planta (‘sole of the foot’; ‘plant cutting’) was borrowed into Irish.
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