cumhachd

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• comhachd, cumachda

Etymology

From Old Irish cumachtae (“power, strength, might”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰũ.əxɡ/

Noun

cumhachd m or f (genitive singular cumhachd, plural cumhachdan)

1. power, might, force
2. influence

Declension

Declension of cumhachd (class IIe masculine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cumhachd	cumhachdan
Genitive	cumhachd	chumhachdan
Dative	cumhachd	cumhachdan
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(an) cumhachd	(na) cumhachdan
Genitive	(a') chumhachd	(nan) cumhachdan
Dative	(a') chumhachd	(na) cumhachdan
Vocative	(a) chumhachd	(a) chumhachdan

Declension of cumhachd (class IIe feminine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cumhachd	cumhachdan
Genitive	cumhachd	chumhachdan
Dative	cumhachd	cumhachdan
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(a') chumhachd	(na) cumhachdan
Genitive	(na) cumhachd	(nan) cumhachdan
Dative	(a') chumhachd	(na) cumhachdan
Vocative	(a) chumhachd	(a) chumhachdan

Derived terms

• call cumhachd (“power cut”)
• cumhachd mara (“tidal energy”)
• cumhachd nan tonn (“wave power”)
• cumhachdach (“powerful; influential”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cumhachd	chumhachd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language