cumal

Fula

Alternative forms

• cumural
• (Pulaar) cumu

Noun

cumal

1. (Pular) fire

Related terms

• cumogal
• sumitaade
• sumude
• sumugol

 

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuβ̃al]

Noun

cumal f (genitive cumaile, nominative plural cumala)

1. female servant or slave
2. a unit of measurement generally worth three milking cows.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cumalL	cumailL	cumalaH
Vocative	cumalL	cumailL	cumalaH
Accusative	cumailN	cumailL	cumalaH
Genitive	cumaileH	cumalL	cumalN
Dative	cumailL	cumalaib	cumalaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cumhal

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cumal	chumal	cumal pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cumal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language