cumachtach

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *komonxtākos (compare Welsh cyfoethog). By surface analysis, cumachtae +‎ -ach

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuβ̃axtax]

Adjective

cumachtach

1. powerful, potent

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cumachtach	cumachtach	cumachtach
Vocative	cumachtaig* cumachtach**
Accusative	cumachtach	cumachtaig
Genitive	cumachtaig	cumachtaige	cumachtaig
Dative	cumachtach	cumachtaig	cumachtach
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	cumachtaig	cumachtacha
Vocative	cumachtachu cumachtacha†
Accusative	cumachtachu cumachtacha†
Genitive	cumachtach
Dative	cumachtachaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Quotations

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^c41

  Nídan chumachtig for n‑irisse.

  We are not potent over your faith.

Descendants

• Irish: cumhachtach

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language