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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
colún	cholún	gcolún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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