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)

1. (architecture) pillar, column
2. column (of text)
3. (figuratively) pillar, support; (plural) warriors

Declension

Declension of colún (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative colún colúin vocative a cholúin a cholúna genitive colúin colún dative colún colúin forms with the definite article case 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