orcun

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *orgenā, an unusual double-thematic formation in -e-nā. Two other basic verbal nouns, mlegon (“milking”) (from *mlig-o-nos) and fedan (“carrying”) (from *wed-o-nā) also have double-thematic *-V-no/ā- formations. Their closest parallels are Proto-Germanic *-aną and past participles in *-anaz, in addition to Slavic past passive participles in original -enъ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈoɾ.ɡun/ (Blasse) [ˈoɾ.ɡun] (Griffith) [ˈoɾ.ɡøn] === Noun === orcun f (genitive oircne) verbal noun of orcaid murder, slaughter raid ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: orcan, organ, argan Irish: argain === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “orgun, (orcun)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language