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Scottish Gaelic
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
Noun
cumhachdach m (genitive singular cumhachdaich, plural cumhachdaich)
- mighty, powerful person
- potentate
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cumhachdach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language