urdhún

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airdún (“place or building in front of a dún”).

Noun

urdhún m (genitive singular urdhúin, nominative plural urdhúnta)

  1. (architecture) bastion

Declension
Declension of urdhún

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative urdhún urdhúnta
Vocative a urdhúin a urdhúnta
Genitive urdhúin urdhúnta
Dative urdhún urdhúnta

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-urdhún na hurdhúnta
Genitive an urdhúin na n-urdhúnta
Dative leis an urdhún

don urdhún

 leis na hurdhúnta

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
urdhún n-urdhún hurdhún t-urdhún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urdhún”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “bastion”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
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