Noun: termon
| Singular | termon |
| Plural | termons |
Sample Sentences
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Another time, when Patrick was at rest in the end of night, at Tiprad-Cernai, in Tir-Tipraid, the angel went to him and awoke him. Patrick said to him: "Is there anything in which I have offended God, or is His anger upon me?" "No," said the angel; "and you are informed from God," added the angel, "if it is it you desire, that there shall be no share for any else in Eriu, but for you alone. And the extent of the termon of your see from God is to Droma-Bregh, and to Sliabh-Mis, and to Bri-Airghi." [1874, James O'Leary translating Saint Patrick, Tripartite Life:]
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Hugh MacMahon out of the way, he in October 1591 partitioned Monaghan (with the exception of Donnamyne, which belonged to the Earl of Essex) among the principal gentlemen of the MacMahons, the termon or ecclesiastical lands being reserved for English officials. [c. 1900, Robert Dunlop, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 : Fitzwilliam, William (1526-1599)]
Nouns inflected like termon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ter-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
5. Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥
6. Proto-Italic *termn̥
7. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
8. Proto-Italic *-nos
9. Proto-Italic *term(e)nos
10. Latin terminusder.
11. Middle Irish termonn
12. Irish tearmannbor.
13. English termon
14. From Irish tearmann, from Middle Irish termonn (“church land affording right of sanctuary”), from Latin terminus (“limit”). Doublet of term and terminus. See: Irish Nouns '
tearmann', Latin Nouns '
terminus'.