cumhdach
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish cumdach (whence the English learned borrowing cumdach), from Old Irish cumtach, the verbal noun of con·utaing. Cognate with Manx coodagh and Scottish Gaelic còmhdach.
Noun
[edit]cumhdach m (genitive singular cumhdaigh, nominative plural cumhdaigh)
- verbal noun of cumhdaigh
- cover, covering, wrapper
- Synonym: clúdach
- shrine (case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics)
- protection (process of keeping something safe)
- binding (spine of a book)
- (biology) armature (protective organ, structure, or covering)
- custody (temporary possession)
- upholstery (materials used in upholstering furniture)
- (obsolete) construction
Declension
[edit]Declension of cumhdach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cumhdach | chumhdach | gcumhdach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuṁdaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 216
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumhdach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeyǵʰ-
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish verbal nouns
- ga:Biology
- Irish terms with obsolete senses
- Irish first-declension nouns
- ga:Books