taobhfort

Irish

Alternative forms

• taobhphort

Etymology

From taobh +‎ port (“mound, embankment”).

Noun

taobhfort m (genitive singular taobhfoirt, nominative plural taobhfoirt)

1. (military) traverse

Declension

Declension of taobhfort (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative taobhfort taobhfoirt vocative a thaobhfoirt a thaobhforta genitive taobhfoirt taobhfort dative taobhfort taobhfoirt forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an taobhfort na taobhfoirt genitive an taobhfoirt na dtaobhfort dative leis an taobhfort don taobhfort leis na taobhfoirt

Mutation

Mutated forms of taobhfort

radical	lenition	eclipsis
taobhfort	thaobhfort	dtaobhfort

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “taobhfort”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “taobhfort”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm