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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish longphort, from long (“ship”) + port (“place, spot; stronghold, fortress; settlement”).
Noun
longfort m (genitive singular longfoirt, nominative plural longfoirt)
- camp
- stronghold, fortified residence
Declension
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Further reading
- “longfort”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “longphort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “longṗort”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 445
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “longfort”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN