cluimhreach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apparently from clúmh (“down, feathers”), though the shortening of the vowel is unexplained.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cluimhreach f (genitive singular cluimhrí) or
cluimhreach m (genitive singular cluimhrigh)
Declension
[edit]As a feminine second-declension noun:
Declension of cluimhreach
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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As a masculine first-declension noun:
Declension of cluimhreach
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cluimhreach | chluimhreach | gcluimhreach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- “cluimhreach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cluiṁreaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 153
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cluimhreach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39