cumhacht
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cumachtae (“power, strength, might”).
Noun
[edit]cumhacht f (genitive singular cumhachta, nominative plural cumhachtaí)
- power
- authority, influence
- authorization
- might, strength
- Proverb: Dhá dtrian córa cumhacht. ― Might is (two-thirds) right.
- (magical, supernatural) power
- (mechanics) energy
- (mathematics) power
Declension
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- Variant genitive plural: cumhacht
Derived terms
[edit]- anchumhacht (“tyrannical power”)
- ardchumhacht (“higher power”)
- ardchumhachta (“high-powered”)
- borradh cumhachta (“power surge”)
- comhla chumhachta (“power-valve”)
- cumhacht aturnae (“power of attorney”)
- cumhachtach (“powerful”, adjective)
- cumhachtaigh (“empower”, verb)
- cumhachtstáisiún (“power station”)
- each-chumhacht (“horsepower”)
- gléasra cumhachta (“powertrain, drivetrain”)
- hidreachumhacht (“hydropower”)
- mórchumhacht (“great power, great authority”)
- uilechumhacht (“omnipotence”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cumhacht | chumhacht | gcumhacht |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumhacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cumhacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cumhacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂neḱ-
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish terms with usage examples
- ga:Mechanics
- ga:Mathematics
- Irish third-declension nouns