burdún

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English burdoun (undersong), from Old French bordon, from Medieval Latin burdō (drone), from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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burdún m (genitive singular burdúin, nominative plural burdúin)

  1. epigram (short, witty or pithy poem)
  2. tale, gossip

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
burdún bhurdún mburdún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ burdún”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búrdún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86

Further reading

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