cumasach
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish commusach (“able, capable, powerful”). By surface analysis, cumas (“power, capability, ability, capacity, potential, aptitude, competence, faculty”) + -ach.
Adjective edit
cumasach (genitive singular masculine cumasaigh, genitive singular feminine cumasaí, plural cumasacha, comparative cumasaí)
- capable, powerful
- (used as intensifying adjective) powerfully, extremely
Declension edit
Declension of cumasach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | cumasach | chumasach | cumasacha; chumasacha² | |
| Vocative | chumasaigh | cumasacha | ||
| Genitive | cumasaí | cumasacha | cumasach | |
| Dative | cumasach; chumasach¹ |
chumasach; chumasaigh (archaic) |
cumasacha; chumasacha² | |
| Comparative | níos cumasaí | |||
| Superlative | is cumasaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cumasach | chumasach | gcumasach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “cumasach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “cumasach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “commusach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language