longphort

See also: Longphort

Irish

Noun

longphort m (genitive singular longphoirt, nominative plural longphoirt)

1. Alternative spelling of longfort

Middle Irish

Etymology

long (“ship”) +‎ port (“place, spot; stronghold, fortress; settlement”)

Noun

longphort m

1. camp, encampment, temporary stronghold
2. mansion, princely dwelling; stronghold, fortress

Derived terms

• longportach

Descendants

• Irish: longfort
• Scottish Gaelic: longphort

Mutation

Mutation of longphort

radical	lenition	nasalization
longphort	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “longphort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish longphort. By surface analysis, long (“ship”) +‎ port (“port”).

Noun

longphort m (genitive singular longphuirt, plural longphortan)

1. seaport