cumhach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cumach, cumthach (“sorrowful, sad, mournful”).

Adjective

cumhach (genitive singular masculine cumhaigh, genitive singular feminine cumhaí, plural cumhacha, comparative cumhaí)

  1. homesick, nostalgic

Declension

Declension of cumhach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cumhach chumhach cumhacha;
chumhacha2
vocative chumhaigh cumhacha
genitive cumhaí cumhacha cumhach
dative cumhach;
chumhach1 		chumhach;
chumhaigh (archaic) 		cumhacha;
chumhacha2
Comparative níos cumhaí
Superlative is cumhaí

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

  • cumha (“sorrow, nostalgia”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumhach
radical lenition eclipsis
cumhach chumhach gcumhach

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Adjective

cumhach

  1. conditional

Derived terms

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