cúnamh

Irish

Alternative forms

• congnamh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish congnam, verbal noun of con·gní. By surface analysis, cún(aigh) +‎ -amh.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːn̪ˠəvˠ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːnə/, /ˈkoːnə/
• (Connemara) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːnˠə/, /ˈkuːn̪ˠə/
• (Mayo) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːnˠuː/, /ˈkuːn̪ˠuː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːnˠu/, [ˈkũːnˠũ]; /ˈkuːn̪ˠu/, [ˈkũːn̪ˠũ]

Noun

cúnamh m (genitive singular as substantive cúnaimh, genitive as verbal noun cúnta)

1. verbal noun of cúnaigh
2. help, aid, assistance

   D’ordaigh Dia cúnamh; is maith le Dia (féin) cúnamh.

   God helps those who help themselves.

Declension

Declension of cúnamh

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cúnamh Vocative a chúnaimh Genitive cúnaimh Dative cúnamh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an cúnamh Genitive an chúnaimh Dative leis an gcúnamh don chúnamh

Synonyms

• cabhair
• cuidiú

Derived terms

• áirse chúnta
• briathar cúnta
• comhlacht cúnta
• cúnamh a thabhairt do
• cúnamh airgid
• cúnamh dífhostaíochta
• cúnamh teaghlaigh
• cúntach
• féinchúnamh
• guta cúnta
• inneall cúnta
• lámh chúnta
• le cúnamh Dé
• lucht cúnta
• múinteoir cúnta
• teacht chun cúnaimh ar

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cúnamh	chúnamh	gcúnamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “cúnamh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “congnaṁ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 180
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúnamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “congnam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language