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
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airdún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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