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• longphort, long-phort (superseded)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