colún

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish columa, columan, from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /kəˈl̪ˠuːn̪ˠ/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔlˠuːnˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlˠunˠ/

Noun

colún m (genitive singular colúin, nominative plural colúin)

(architecture) pillar, column
column (of text)
(figuratively) pillar, support; (plural) warriors

Declension

Declension of colún (first declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	colún	colúin
vocative	a cholúin	a cholúna
genitive	colúin	colún
dative	colún	colúin

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an colún	na colúin
genitive	an cholúin	na gcolún
dative	leis an gcolún don cholún	leis na colúin

Derived terms

colún ainmneacha (“column of names”)
colún bealaigh (“column of route”)
colún ceathrar (“column of fours”)
colún codánacháin (“fractionating column”)
colún cuisleannach (“fluted column”)
colún feithiclí (“column of vehicles”)
colún figiúirí (“column of figures”)
colún leabhair (“column of a book”)
colún liteartha (“literary column”)
colún long (“column of ships”)
colún na marbh (“obituary column”)
colún nuachta (“news column”)
colún páipéir (“column of a paper”)
colún reatha (“flying column”)
colún saighdiúirí (“column of soldiers”)
colún spóirt (“sports column”)
colún veirteabrach (“vertebral column”)
colúnaí (“columnist”)
colúnra (“columns; colonnade”)

Related terms

colúnáid (“colonnade”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *colún*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
colún	cholún	gcolún

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

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “colún”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “columa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language