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Irish
Noun
longphort m (genitive singular longphoirt, nominative plural longphoirt)
- alternative spelling of longfort
Middle Irish
Etymology
long (“ship”) + port (“place, spot; stronghold, fortress; settlement”)
Noun
longphort m
- camp, encampment, temporary stronghold
- mansion, princely dwelling; stronghold, fortress
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of longphort
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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longphort
also llongphort after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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longphort
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish longphort. By surface analysis, long (“ship”) + port (“port”).
Noun
longphort m (genitive singular longphuirt, plural longphortan)
- seaport