cumhachdach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • comhachdach

Etymology

From Old Irish cumachtach (“powerful, mighty; invested with (magical) powers; mighty one, ruler; wizard”) (compare modern Irish cumhachtach). By surface analysis, cumhachd +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰũ.əxɡəx/

Adjective

cumhachdach (genitive singular masculine cumhachdaich, comparative cumhachdaiche)

  1. powerful, mighty
  2. influential

Derived terms

Noun

cumhachdach m (genitive singular cumhachdaich, plural cumhachdaich)

  1. mighty, powerful person
  2. potentate

Mutation

Mutation of cumhachdach
radical lenition
cumhachdach chumhachdach

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachdach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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