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cumhachtach

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cumachtach. By surface analysis, cumhacht +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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cumhachtach (genitive singular masculine cumhachtaigh, genitive singular feminine cumhachtaí, plural cumhachtacha, comparative cumhachtaí)

  1. powerful

Declension

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Declension of cumhachtach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative cumhachtach chumhachtach cumhachtacha;
chumhachtacha²
Vocative chumhachtaigh cumhachtacha
Genitive cumhachtaí cumhachtacha cumhachtach
Dative cumhachtach;
chumhachtach¹ 		chumhachtach;
chumhachtaigh (archaic) 		cumhachtacha;
chumhachtacha²
Comparative níos cumhachtaí
Superlative is cumhachtaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

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cumhachtach m (genitive singular cumhachtaigh, nominative plural cumhachtaigh)

  1. (literary) person with supernatural powers, magician

Declension

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Declension of cumhachtach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cumhachtach cumhachtaigh
Vocative a chumhachtaigh a chumhachtacha
Genitive cumhachtaigh cumhachtach
Dative cumhachtach cumhachtaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cumhachtach na cumhachtaigh
Genitive an chumhachtaigh na gcumhachtach
Dative leis an gcumhachtach

don chumhachtach

leis na cumhachtaigh

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cumhachtach chumhachtach gcumhachtach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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