dengin (c.1230)

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dengin (c.1230)

[gdw]

[FEW: ; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
 
Irish

In this context, the term is more likely to be a rendering of daingean – the Irish word for ‘stronghold’ – than an otherwise unattested variant spelling of donjun (cf. Dermot2 p.144).

s.

1mil. archit.stronghold, fort
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiiex ) A Murchid veit idunc li reis [...]. A un son dengin l’ad trové  176
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