cumhachtach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cumhachtaidh (noun)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cumachtach. By surface analysis, cumhacht + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]cumhachtach (genitive singular masculine cumhachtaigh, genitive singular feminine cumhachtaí, plural cumhachtacha, comparative cumhachtaí)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | cumhachtach | chumhachtach | cumhachtacha; chumhachtacha2 | |
vocative | chumhachtaigh | cumhachtacha | ||
genitive | cumhachtaí | cumhachtacha | cumhachtach | |
dative | cumhachtach; chumhachtach1 |
chumhachtach; chumhachtaigh (archaic) |
cumhachtacha; chumhachtacha2 | |
Comparative | níos cumhachtaí | |||
Superlative | is cumhachtaí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
[edit]cumhachtach m (genitive singular cumhachtaigh, nominative plural cumhachtaigh)
- (literary) person with supernatural powers, magician
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cumhachtach | chumhachtach | gcumhachtach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- “cumhachtach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuṁaċtaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 215
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumhachtach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cumhachtach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cumhachtach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂neḱ-
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Irish nouns suffixed with -ach
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish literary terms
- Irish first-declension nouns
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