cumachtach
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cumachtach
- powerful, potent
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c41
- Nídan chumachtig for n‑irisse.
- We are not potent over your faith.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c41
Declension edit
o/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | cumachtach | cumachtach | cumachtach |
Vocative | cumachtaig* cumachtach** | ||
Accusative | cumachtach | cumachtaig | |
Genitive | cumachtaig | cumachtaige | cumachtaig |
Dative | cumachtach | cumachtaig | cumachtach |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | cumachtaig | cumachtacha | |
Vocative | cumachtachu cumachtacha† | ||
Accusative | cumachtachu cumachtacha† | ||
Genitive | cumachtach | ||
Dative | cumachtachaib | ||
Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative |
Descendants edit
- Irish: cumhachtach
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cumachtach | chumachtach | cumachtach 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), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language