urdhún

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airdún (“place or building in front of a dún”).

Noun

urdhún m (genitive singular urdhúin, nominative plural urdhúnta)

1. (architecture) bastion

Declension

Declension of urdhún (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative urdhún urdhúnta vocative a urdhúin a urdhúnta genitive urdhúin urdhúnta dative urdhún urdhúnta forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-urdhún na hurdhúnta genitive an urdhúin na n-urdhúnta dative leis an urdhún don urdhún leis na hurdhúnta

Mutation

Mutated forms of urdhún

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urdhún	n-urdhún	hurdhún	t-urdhún

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airdún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urdhún”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “bastion”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025