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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman galun, galon (“liquid measure”), from Old Northern French (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish.
Noun
galún m (genitive singular galúin, nominative plural galúin)
- gallon
- vessel
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English galloon (compare French galon).
Noun
galún m (genitive singular galúin, nominative plural galúin)
- galloon
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| galún
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ghalún
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ngalún
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “galún”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “gallon”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “galún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language