gorún

See also: gorun and Gorun

Irish

Alternative forms
  • burrún, gurrún[1]

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps related to literary cara (“haunch”)[2] and/or Middle Irish urrann, aurann (“portion”)[3] (compare roinn, Old Irish rann).

Pronunciation

Noun

gorún m (genitive singular gorúin, nominative plural gorúin)

  1. haunch (area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttock)

Declension
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
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
  1. “gorún”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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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