longphort
See also: Longphort
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
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| longphort also llongphort after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
longphort pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “longphort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish longphort. By surface analysis, long (“ship”) + port (“port”).
Noun
longphort m (genitive singular longphuirt, plural longphortan)