ahaldun
Appearance
Basque
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ahal (“might, power”) + -dun.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /ahaldun/ [a.hal̪.d̪ũn]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /aldun/ [al̪.d̪ũn]
- Rhymes: -aldun, -un
- Hyphenation: a‧hal‧dun
Adjective
[edit]ahaldun (comparative ahaldunago, superlative ahaldunen, excessive ahaldunegi)
Declension
[edit]Noun
[edit]ahaldun anim
- deputy
- councillor, minister (head of a department in the government of a Basque province)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ahaldun”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “ahaldun”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005