Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cumachtach (powerful, mighty; invested with (magical) powers; mighty one, ruler; wizard) (compare modern Irish cumhachtach). By surface analysis, cumhachd +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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cumhachdach (genitive singular masculine cumhachdaich, comparative cumhachdaiche)

  1. powerful, mighty
  2. influential

Derived terms

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Noun

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cumhachdach m (genitive singular cumhachdaich, plural cumhachdaich)

  1. mighty, powerful person
  2. potentate

Mutation

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachdach”, 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), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language