urdhún

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airdún (“place or building in front of a dún”).

Noun

urdhún m (genitive singular urdhúin, nominative plural urdhúnta)

  1. (architecture) bastion

Declension

Declension of urdhún (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative urdhún urdhúnta
vocative a urdhúin a urdhúnta
genitive urdhúin urdhúnta
dative urdhún urdhúnta
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-urdhún na hurdhúnta
genitive an urdhúin na n-urdhúnta
dative leis an urdhún
don urdhún 		leis na hurdhúnta

Mutation

Mutated forms of urdhún
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
urdhún n-urdhún hurdhún t-urdhún

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

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