longphort
Old Irish
Etymology
long (“ship”) + port (“place, spot; stronghold, fortress; settlement”)
Noun
longphort m
- camp, encampment, temporary stronghold
- mansion, princely dwelling; stronghold, fortress
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Irish: longfort
- Scottish Gaelic: longphort
- ⇒ Middle Irish: longportach
- Irish: longfortach
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish longphort; synchronically long (“ship”) + port (“port”).
Noun
longphort m (genitive singular longphuirt, plural longphortan)