gorún

See also: gorun and Gorun

Irish

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

gorún m (genitive singular gorúin, nominative plural gorúin)

Declension of gorún (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an gorún	na gorúin
genitive	an ghorúin	na ngorún
dative	leis an ngorún don ghorún	leis na gorúin

Mutated forms of *gorún*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
gorún	ghorún	ngorún

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ “gorún”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airrann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20