cumhang

Irish

Adjective

cumhang

1. Superseded spelling of cúng.

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumhang

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cumhang	chumhang	gcumhang

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cumung, from Proto-Celtic *kom-ingus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂enǵʰ- (“tight, painfully constricted”).

Pronunciation

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰũ.ək/, [ˈkʰʉ̃.ək]
• (North Uist) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰũˑ.ək/
• (Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰũˑ.əŋk/

Adjective

cumhang

1. narrow, close, tight
2. close-minded, narrow-minded, illiberal

   'S e neach-dìolain cumhang! ― He’s a narrow-minded bastard!

   Cha chreid thu dè cho cumhang is a tha cridhe Chaluim! ― You would not believe how narrow-minded Calum is!

Noun

cumhang m (genitive singular cumhaing, plural cumhangan)

1. narrow passage
2. ravine, defile