cuimbre
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cuimbre f (genitive cuimbre)
- brevity, shortness
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d3
- cid écen aisndís do neuch as doruid co léir, ní sechmalfaider cuimre and dano
- though it is necessary to explain carefully anything that is difficult, however brevity will not be passed by
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d3
Declension edit
Feminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cuimbreL | — | — |
Vocative | cuimbreL | — | — |
Accusative | cuimbriN | — | — |
Genitive | cuimbre | — | — |
Dative | cuimbriL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
- Irish: coimre
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cuimbre | chuimbre | cuimbre pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuimbre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language