cumhachd
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish cumachtae (“power, strength, might”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cumhachd m or f (genitive singular cumhachd, plural cumhachdan)
Derived terms
- call cumhachd (“power cut”)
- cumhachd mara (“tidal energy”)
- cumhachd nan tonn (“wave power”)
- cumhachdach (“powerful; influential”)
Mutation
Scottish 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
- 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