cumhachdach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• comhachdach

Etymology

From Old Irish cumachtach (“powerful, mighty; invested with (magical) powers; mighty one, ruler; wizard”) (compare modern Irish cumhachtach). By surface analysis, cumhachd +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰũ.əxɡəx/

Adjective

cumhachdach (genitive singular masculine cumhachdaich, comparative cumhachdaiche)

1. powerful, mighty
2. influential

Derived terms

• uile-chumhachdach

Related terms

• cumhachd

Noun

cumhachdach m (genitive singular cumhachdaich, plural cumhachdaich)

1. mighty, powerful person
2. potentate

Mutation

Mutation of cumhachdach

radical	lenition
cumhachdach	chumhachdach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachdach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language