cumachtach

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *komonxtākos (compare Welsh cyfoethog). By surface analysis, cumachtae +‎ -ach

Pronunciation

Adjective

cumachtach

  1. powerful, potent

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cumachtach cumachtach cumachtach
Vocative cumachtaig*
cumachtach**
Accusative cumachtach cumachtaig
Genitive cumachtaig cumachtaige cumachtaig
Dative cumachtach cumachtaig cumachtach
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative cumachtaig cumachtacha
Vocative cumachtachu
cumachtacha†
Accusative cumachtachu
cumachtacha†
Genitive cumachtach
Dative cumachtachaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Quotations

  • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c41
    Nídan chumachtig for n‑irisse.
    We are not potent over your faith.

Descendants

  • Irish: cumhachtach

Mutation

Mutation of cumachtach
radical lenition nasalization
cumachtach chumachtach cumachtach
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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