burdún

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English burdoun (“undersong”), from Old French bordon, from Medieval Latin burdō (“drone”), from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdō.

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /bˠuːɾˠˈd̪ˠuːn̪ˠ/[3]

Noun

burdún m (genitive singular burdúin, nominative plural burdúin)

  1. epigram (short, witty or pithy poem)
  2. tale, gossip

Declension
Declension of burdún

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative burdún burdúin
Vocative a bhurdúin a bhurdúna
Genitive burdúin burdún
Dative burdún burdúin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an burdún na burdúin
Genitive an bhurdúin na mburdún
Dative leis an mburdún

don bhurdún

 leis na burdúin

Derived terms
  • burdúnach
  • burdúnaí

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
burdún bhurdún mburdún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “burdún”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “búrdún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86

Further reading
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