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cumasach

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish commusach (“able, capable, powerful”). By surface analysis, cumas (“power, capability, ability, capacity, potential, aptitude, competence, faculty”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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cumasach (genitive singular masculine cumasaigh, genitive singular feminine cumasaí, plural cumasacha, comparative cumasaí)

  1. capable, powerful
    Proverb: Is minic a rinne bromach gioblach capall cumasach. ― Many a ragged colt made a noble horse.
  2. (used as intensifying adjective) powerfully, extremely

Declension

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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

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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

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