ceamach

Irish

Alternative forms
  • ciomach

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈcɨ̞mˠa(x)/[1] (corresponding to the form ciomach)

Noun

ceamach f (genitive singular ceamaí, nominative plural ceamacha)

  1. rag, clout (piece of cloth)
  2. (in the plural) rags, tattered old clothes
  3. lout (bumpkin)
  4. slattern, slut, untidy or ragged person
    Synonym: abarlach

Declension
Declension of ceamach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ceamach ceamacha
Vocative a cheamach a cheamacha
Genitive ceamaí ceamach
Dative ceamach
ceamaigh (archaic, dialectal)		 ceamacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cheamach na ceamacha
Genitive na ceamaí na gceamach
Dative leis an gceamach
leis an gceamaigh (archaic, dialectal)

don cheamach
don cheamaigh (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na ceamacha

Derived terms
  • ceamachán
  • ceamachas

Adjective

ceamach (genitive singular masculine ceamaigh, genitive singular feminine ceamaí, plural ceamacha, comparative ceamaí)

  1. ragged (rent or worn into tatters), tattered
    Synonyms: gioblach, bratógach
  2. sluttish (dirty or untidy; disorderly), slovenly
    Synonyms: sraoilleach, gioblach, giobógach

Declension
Declension of ceamach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative ceamach cheamach ceamacha;
cheamacha²
Vocative cheamaigh ceamacha
Genitive ceamaí ceamacha ceamach
Dative ceamach;
cheamach¹		 cheamach;
cheamaigh (archaic)		 ceamacha;
cheamacha²
Comparative níos ceamaí
Superlative is ceamaí

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

Alternative forms
  • ceamánta

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
ceamach cheamach gceamach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 97, page 38

Further reading
  • “ceamach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ciomaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 139
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceamach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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