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cumhachtach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cumachtach. By surface analysis, cumhacht +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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cumhachtach (genitive singular masculine cumhachtaigh, genitive singular feminine cumhachtaí, plural cumhachtacha, comparative cumhachtaí)

  1. powerful

Declension

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Declension of cumhachtach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cumhachtach chumhachtach cumhachtacha;
chumhachtacha2
vocative chumhachtaigh cumhachtacha
genitive cumhachtaí cumhachtacha cumhachtach
dative cumhachtach;
chumhachtach1
chumhachtach;
chumhachtaigh (archaic)
cumhachtacha;
chumhachtacha2
Comparative níos cumhachtaí
Superlative is cumhachtaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

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cumhachtach m (genitive singular cumhachtaigh, nominative plural cumhachtaigh)

  1. (literary) person with supernatural powers, magician

Declension

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Declension of cumhachtach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cumhachtach cumhachtaigh
vocative a chumhachtaigh a chumhachtacha
genitive cumhachtaigh cumhachtach
dative cumhachtach cumhachtaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cumhachtach na cumhachtaigh
genitive an chumhachtaigh na gcumhachtach
dative leis an gcumhachtach
don chumhachtach
leis na cumhachtaigh

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cumhachtach
radical lenition eclipsis
cumhachtach chumhachtach gcumhachtach

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

Further reading

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