cuimbre

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cummair +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

Noun

cuimbre f (genitive cuimbre)

  1. brevity, shortness
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d3
      cid écen aisndís do neuch as doruid co léir, ní sechmalfaider cuimre and dano
      though it is necessary to explain carefully anything that is difficult, however brevity will not be passed by

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cuimbreL — —
Vocative cuimbreL — —
Accusative cuimbriN — —
Genitive cuimbre — —
Dative cuimbriL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: coimre

Mutation

Mutation of cuimbre
radical lenition nasalization
cuimbre chuimbre cuimbre
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

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