gorún

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See also: gorun, and Gorun

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Uncertain; perhaps related to literary cara (haunch)[2] and/or Middle Irish urrann, aurann (portion)[3] (compare roinn, Old Irish rann).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gorún m (genitive singular gorúin, nominative plural gorúin)

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

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gorún ghorún ngorún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  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

Further reading

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