cumasach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish commusach (“able, capable, powerful”). By surface analysis, cumas (“power, capability, ability, capacity, potential, aptitude, competence, faculty”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

cumasach (genitive singular masculine cumasaigh, genitive singular feminine cumasaí, plural cumasacha, comparative cumasaí)

  1. capable, powerful
    Proverb: Is minic a rinne bromach gioblach capall cumasach. ― Many a ragged colt made a noble horse.
  2. (used as intensifying adjective) powerfully, extremely

Declension

Declension of cumasach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cumasach chumasach cumasacha;
chumasacha2
vocative chumasaigh cumasacha
genitive cumasaí cumasacha cumasach
dative cumasach;
chumasach1 		chumasach;
chumasaigh (archaic) 		cumasacha;
chumasacha2
Comparative níos cumasaí
Superlative is cumasaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumasach
radical lenition eclipsis
cumasach chumasach gcumasach

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

References

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