longphort
See also: Longphort
Irish edit
Noun edit
longphort m (genitive singular longphoirt, nominative plural longphoirt)
- Alternative spelling of longfort
Middle Irish edit
Etymology edit
long (“ship”) + port (“place, spot; stronghold, fortress; settlement”)
Noun edit
longphort m
- camp, encampment, temporary stronghold
- mansion, princely dwelling; stronghold, fortress
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| longphort | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “longphort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish longphort. By surface analysis, long (“ship”) + port (“port”).
Noun edit
longphort m (genitive singular longphuirt, plural longphortan)