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Irish
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps related to literary cara (“haunch”)[2] and/or Middle Irish urrann, aurann (“portion”)[3] (compare roinn, Old Irish rann).
Pronunciation
Noun
gorún m (genitive singular gorúin, nominative plural gorúin)
- haunch (area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttock)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| gorún
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ghorún
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ngorún
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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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References
- ^ “gorún”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airrann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20
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