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gorún

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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Declension of gorún

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gorún gorúin
Vocative a ghorúin a ghorúna
Genitive gorúin gorún
Dative gorún gorúin

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

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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