cuimbre

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cuimre

Etymology

From cummair +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkumʲrʲe]

Noun

cuimbre f (genitive cuimbre)

1. brevity, shortness
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14^d3

     cid écen aisndís do neuch as doruid co léir, ní sechmalfaider cuimre and dano

     though it is necessary to explain carefully anything that is difficult, however brevity will not be passed by

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cuimbreL	—	—
Vocative	cuimbreL	—	—
Accusative	cuimbriN	—	—
Genitive	cuimbre	—	—
Dative	cuimbriL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: coimre

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuimbre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language