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Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish cumachtach (“powerful, mighty; invested with (magical) powers; mighty one, ruler; wizard”) (compare modern Irish cumhachtach). By surface analysis, cumhachd + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cumhachdach (genitive singular masculine cumhachdaich, comparative cumhachdaiche)
- powerful, mighty
- influential
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
cumhachdach m (genitive singular cumhachdaich, plural cumhachdaich)
- mighty, powerful person
- potentate
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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cumhachdach |
chumhachdach
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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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Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachdach”, 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), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language