cumhachd
Scottish Gaelic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish cumachtae (“power, strength, might”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcumhachd m or f (genitive singular cumhachd, plural cumhachdan)
Declension
editDeclension of cumhachd (class IIe masculine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | cumhachd | cumhachdan |
Genitive | cumhachd | chumhachdan |
Dative | cumhachd | cumhachdan |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (an) cumhachd | (na) cumhachdan |
Genitive | (a') chumhachd | (nan) cumhachdan |
Dative | (a') chumhachd | (na) cumhachdan |
Vocative | chumhachd | chumhachdan |
Declension of cumhachd (class IIe feminine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | cumhachd | cumhachdan |
Genitive | cumhachd | chumhachdan |
Dative | cumhachd | cumhachdan; cumhachdaibh✝ |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (a') chumhachd | (na) cumhachdan |
Genitive | (na) cumhachd | (nan) cumhachdan |
Dative | (a') chumhachd | (na) cumhachdan; cumhachdaibh✝ |
Vocative | chumhachd | chumhachdan |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
edit- call cumhachd (“power cut”)
- cumhachd mara (“tidal energy”)
- cumhachd nan tonn (“wave power”)
- cumhachdach (“powerful; influential”)
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cumhachd | chumhachd |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachd”, 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), “cumachtae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic nouns with multiple genders
- Scottish Gaelic second-declension nouns