cuimbre
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcuimbre 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
editFeminine 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
editOld 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- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuimbre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language