cumachtach
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *komonxtākos (compare Welsh cyfoethog). By surface analysis, cumachtae + -ach
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cumachtach
Declension
[edit]o/ā-stem | |||
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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 |
Quotations
[edit]- 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. 14c41
- Nídan chumachtig for n‑irisse.
- We are not potent over your faith.
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: cumhachtach
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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cumachtach | chumachtach | cumachtach pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂neḱ-
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish adjectives
- Old Irish o/ā-stem adjectives
- Old Irish terms with quotations