burdún

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

burdún m (genitive singular burdúin, nominative plural burdúin)

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

Declension

Declension of burdún (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative burdún burdúin
vocative a bhurdúin a bhurdúna
genitive burdúin burdún
dative burdún burdúin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an burdún na burdúin
genitive an bhurdúin na mburdún
dative leis an mburdún
don bhurdún 		leis na burdúin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of burdún
radical lenition eclipsis
burdún bhurdún mburdún

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  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

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