cumhscú

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cumscugud (“act of moving, changing”), verbal noun of con·oscaigi (“to move, change”).

Noun

cumhscú m (genitive singular cumhscaithe)

1. verbal noun of cumhscaigh (“move, shift; stir, agitate”)

   Synonyms: cumhscal, cumhscladh

2. movement; stir

Declension

Declension of cumhscú (irregular, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cumhscú vocative a chumhscú genitive cumhscaithe dative cumhscú forms with the definite article case singular nominative an cumhscú genitive an chumhscaithe dative leis an gcumhscú don chumhscú

Derived terms

• bithchumhscú (“bioturbation”)
• reo-chumhscú (“cryoturbation”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumhscú

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cumhscú	chumhscú	gcumhscú

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumhscú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumscugud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language