cumhscú

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cumscugud (“act of moving, changing”), verbal noun of con·oscaigi (“to move, change”).

Noun

cumhscú m (genitive singular cumhscaithe)

1. verbal noun of cumhscaigh (“move, shift; stir, agitate”)

   Synonyms: cumhscal, cumhscladh

2. movement; stir

Declension

Declension of cumhscú

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cumhscú Vocative a chumhscú Genitive cumhscaithe Dative cumhscú

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an cumhscú Genitive an chumhscaithe Dative leis an gcumhscú don chumhscú

Derived terms

• bithchumhscú (“bioturbation”)
• reo-chumhscú (“cryoturbation”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cumhscú	chumhscú	gcumhscú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumhscú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cumscugud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language