cumasach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish commusach (“able, capable, powerful”). By surface analysis, cumas (“power, capability, ability, capacity, potential, aptitude, competence, faculty”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

cumasach (genitive singular masculine cumasaigh, genitive singular feminine cumasaí, plural cumasacha, comparative cumasaí)

capable, powerful
Proverb: Is minic a rinne bromach gioblach capall cumasach. ― Many a ragged colt made a noble horse.
(used as intensifying adjective) powerfully, extremely

Declension

Declension of cumasach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	cumasach	chumasach	cumasacha; chumasacha²
Vocative	chumasaigh	chumasach	cumasacha
Genitive	chumasaigh	cumasaí	cumasacha	cumasach
Dative	cumasach; chumasach¹	chumasach; chumasaigh (archaic)	cumasacha; chumasacha²
Comparative	níos cumasaí
Superlative	is cumasaí

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cumasach	chumasach	gcumasach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Entries containing “cumasach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “cumasach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “commusach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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