cumhang
Irish edit
Adjective edit
cumhang
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cumhang | chumhang | gcumhang |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish cumung, from Proto-Celtic *kom-ingus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂enǵʰ- (“tight, painfully constricted”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cumhang
- narrow, close, tight
- close-minded, narrow-minded, illiberal
- 'S e neach-dìolain cumhang! ― He’s a narrow-minded bastard!
- Cha chreid thu dè cho cumhang is a tha cridhe Chaluim! ― You would not believe how narrow-minded Calum is!