gorún

See also: gorun and Gorun

Irish

Alternative forms

  • burrún, gurrún[1]

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)

  1. haunch (area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttock)

Declension

Declension of gorún (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gorún gorúin
vocative a ghorúin a ghorúna
genitive gorúin gorún
dative gorún gorúin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gorún na gorúin
genitive an ghorúin na ngorún
dative leis an ngorún
don ghorún 		leis na gorúin

Mutation

Mutated forms of gorún
radical lenition eclipsis
gorún ghorún ngorún

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

References

  1. ^ “gorún”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airrann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20

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