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Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish cumachtae (“power, strength, might”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cumhachd m or f (genitive singular cumhachd, plural cumhachdan)
- power, might, force
- influence
Declension
Declension of cumhachd (class IIe masculine noun)
Declension of cumhachd (class IIe feminine noun)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| cumhachd |
chumhachd
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cumachtae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language