cumal
Fula
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cumal
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *kamulā,[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱemh₂- (“to exert oneself, get tired”), and cognate with Middle Irish cuma (“trouble”), Ancient Greek κάμνω (kámnō, “to toil, get tired”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cumal f (genitive cumaile, nominative plural cumala)
Inflection
[edit]| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | cumalL | cumailL | cumalaH |
| vocative | cumalL | cumailL | cumalaH |
| accusative | cumailN | cumailL | cumalaH |
| genitive | cumaileH | cumalL | cumalN |
| dative | cumailL | cumalaib | cumalaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: cumhal
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| cumal | chumal | cumal 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “camulos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 101
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάμνω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 632
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cumal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language