galún

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈlˠuːnˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡalˠuːnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡalˠunˠ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman galun, galon (“liquid measure”), from Old Northern French (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish.

Noun

galún m (genitive singular galúin, nominative plural galúin)

1. gallon
2. vessel

Derived terms

• galún taosctha (“pouring vessel; bailing vessel”)
• galún tomhais (“gallon measure”)
• galún Uí Dhónaill (“half-anker”) (of wine or spirits)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English galloon (compare French galon).

Noun

galún m (genitive singular galúin, nominative plural galúin)

1. galloon

Declension

Declension of galún (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative galún galúin vocative a ghalúin a ghalúna genitive galúin galún dative galún galúin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an galún na galúin genitive an ghalúin na ngalún dative leis an ngalún don ghalún leis na galúin

Mutation

Mutated forms of galún

radical	lenition	eclipsis
galún	ghalún	ngalún

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) “galún”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “gallon”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “galún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language