longfort

See also: Longfort

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish longphort,[2] from Old Irish long (“ship”) + port (“place”).

Noun

longfort m (genitive singular longfoirt, nominative plural longfoirt)

  1. camp
  2. stronghold, fortified residence

Declension

Declension of longfort (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative longfort longfoirt
vocative a longfoirt a longforta
genitive longfoirt longfort
dative longfort longfoirt
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an longfort na longfoirt
genitive an longfoirt na longfort
dative leis an longfort
don longfort 		leis na longfoirt

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “longfort”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “longphort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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