cumhachdach
Scottish Gaelic edit
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Etymology edit
From Old Irish cumachtach (“powerful, mighty; invested with (magical) powers; mighty one, ruler; wizard”) (compare modern Irish cumhachtach). By surface analysis, cumhachd + -ach.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cumhachdach (genitive singular masculine cumhachdaich, comparative cumhachdaiche)
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Noun edit
cumhachdach m (genitive singular cumhachdaich, plural cumhachdaich)
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cumhachdach | chumhachdach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachdach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language