cumha

Galician

Noun

cumha f (feminine plural cumhas, masculine cum, masculine plural cuns)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of cunha

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cumhaidh

Etymology

From Old Irish cuma.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuə/[2] ~ /kuː/[3][2]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.i/[4], /ˈkũː.i/[5] (corresponding to the form cumhaidh)
  • Homophone: cú (one pronunciation)

Noun

cumha m (genitive singular cumha or cumhadh)

  1. sadness, sorrow
    Tá cumha orm.
    I feel sad.
  2. longing, homesickness

Declension

As fourth-declension noun:

Declension of cumha (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cumha
vocative a chumha
genitive cumha
dative cumha
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cumha
genitive an chumha
dative leis an gcumha
don chumha

As fifth-declension noun:

Declension of cumha (fifth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cumha
vocative a chumha
genitive cumhadh
dative cumha
cumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cumha
genitive an chumhadh
dative leis an gcumha
leis an gcumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)
don chumha
don chumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

  • cumhach (“homesick, lonely”, adjective)
  • cumhán m (“fit of loneliness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumha
radical lenition eclipsis
cumha chumha gcumha

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cuma”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 164
  3. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 22; reprinted 1988
  4. ^ Wagner, Heinrich (1959) Gaeilge Theilinn: Foghraidheacht, Gramadach, Téacsanna [The Irish of Teelin: Phonetics, Grammar, Texts] (in Irish), Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 224, page 81; reprinted 1979
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 121, page 46

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰũ.ə/

Noun

cumha f (genitive singular cumha, plural cumhachan)

  1. (business) stipulation, clause, condition, term

Derived terms

Noun

cumha m (genitive singular cumha, plural cumhachan)

  1. lament, elegy, dirge
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