cumha

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Galician

Noun

cumha f (feminine plural cumhas, masculine cum, masculine plural cuns)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of cunha

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cuma.

Pronunciation

Noun

cumha m (genitive singular cumha or cumhadh)

  1. sadness, sorrow
    Tá cumha orm.
    I feel sad.
  2. longing, homesickness

Declension

As fourth-declension noun:

Declension of cumha (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cumha
vocative a chumha
genitive cumha
dative cumha
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an cumha
genitive an chumha
dative leis an gcumha
don chumha

As fifth-declension noun:

Declension of cumha (fifth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cumha
vocative a chumha
genitive cumhadh
dative cumha
cumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an cumha
genitive an chumhadh
dative leis an gcumha
leis an gcumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)
don chumha
don chumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

  • cumhach (“homesick, lonely”, adjective)
  • cumhán m (“fit of loneliness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumha
radical lenition eclipsis
cumha chumha gcumha

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Noun

cumha f (genitive singular cumha, plural cumhachan)

  1. (business) stipulation, clause, condition, term

Derived terms

Noun

cumha m (genitive singular cumha, plural cumhachan)

  1. lament, elegy, dirge
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