cumhang

Irish

cumhang

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.

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”).

cumhang

narrow, close, tight
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!

cumhang m (genitive singular cumhaing, plural cumhangan)

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