cumhachtach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cumhachtaidh (noun)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish cumachtach.[2] By surface analysis, cumhacht +‎ -ach.

Adjective

cumhachtach (genitive singular masculine cumhachtaigh, genitive singular feminine cumhachtaí, plural cumhachtacha, comparative cumhachtaí)

  1. powerful

Declension

Declension of cumhachtach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cumhachtach chumhachtach cumhachtacha;
chumhachtacha2
vocative chumhachtaigh cumhachtacha
genitive cumhachtaí cumhachtacha cumhachtach
dative cumhachtach;
chumhachtach1 		chumhachtach;
chumhachtaigh (archaic) 		cumhachtacha;
chumhachtacha2
Comparative níos cumhachtaí
Superlative is cumhachtaí

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

Noun

cumhachtach m (genitive singular cumhachtaigh, nominative plural cumhachtaigh)

  1. (literary) person with supernatural powers, magician

Declension

Declension of cumhachtach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cumhachtach cumhachtaigh
vocative a chumhachtaigh a chumhachtacha
genitive cumhachtaigh cumhachtach
dative cumhachtach cumhachtaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cumhachtach na cumhachtaigh
genitive an chumhachtaigh na gcumhachtach
dative leis an gcumhachtach
don chumhachtach 		leis na cumhachtaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumhachtach
radical lenition eclipsis
cumhachtach chumhachtach gcumhachtach

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

References

  1. ^ “cumhachtach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ 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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