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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cumdach (whence the English learned borrowing cumdach), from Old Irish cumtach, the verbal noun of con·utaing. Cognate with Manx coodagh and Scottish Gaelic còmhdach.
Noun
cumhdach m (genitive singular cumhdaigh, nominative plural cumhdaigh)
- verbal noun of cumhdaigh
- cover, covering, wrapper
- Synonym: clúdach
- shrine (case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics)
- protection (process of keeping something safe)
- Synonyms: cosaint, anacal
- binding (spine of a book)
- (biology) armature (protective organ, structure, or covering)
- custody (temporary possession)
- upholstery (materials used in upholstering furniture)
- (obsolete) construction
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cumhdach
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chumhdach
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gcumhdach
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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
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuṁdaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 216
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumhdach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN