cuachma

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cochmae (“vessel”).[1]

Noun

cuachma f (genitive singular cuachma, nominative plural cuachmaí)

  1. whelk

Declension

Declension of cuachma (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cuachma cuachmaí
vocative a chuachma a chuachmaí
genitive cuachma cuachmaí
dative cuachma cuachmaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chuachma na cuachmaí
genitive na cuachma na gcuachmaí
dative leis an gcuachma
don chuachma 		leis na cuachmaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuachma
radical lenition eclipsis
cuachma chuachma gcuachma

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), “cochmae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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