longfort

See also: Longfort

Irish

Alternative forms

• longphort, long-phort (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish longphort, from long (“ship”) + port (“place, spot; stronghold, fortress; settlement”).

Noun

longfort m (genitive singular longfoirt, nominative plural longfoirt)

1. camp
2. stronghold, fortified residence

Declension

Declension of longfort

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative longfort longfoirt Vocative a longfoirt a longforta Genitive longfoirt longfort Dative longfort longfoirt

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an longfort na longfoirt Genitive an longfoirt na longfort Dative leis an longfort don longfort leis na longfoirt

Derived terms

• longfortach
• príomhlongfort

 

Further reading

• “longfort”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “longphort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “longṗort”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 445
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “longfort”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN