cumha

Irish

Alternative forms
  • cumhaidh

Etymology

From Old Irish cuma.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kuː/, /kuə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkũː.i/[1] (corresponding to the form cumhaidh)

Noun

cumha m (genitive singular cumha or cumhadh)

  1. sadness, sorrow
    Tá cumha orm.
    I feel sad.
  2. longing, homesickness

Declension

As fourth-declension noun:

Declension of cumha

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cumha
Vocative a chumha
Genitive cumha
Dative cumha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an cumha
Genitive an chumha
Dative leis an gcumha

don chumha

As fifth-declension noun:

Declension of cumha

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cumha
Vocative a chumha
Genitive cumhadh
Dative cumha
cumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an cumha
Genitive an chumhadh
Dative leis an gcumha
leis an gcumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)

don chumha
don chumhaidh (archaic, dialectal)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cumha chumha gcumha
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, page 46

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰũ.ə/

Noun

cumha f (genitive singular cumha, plural cumhachan)

  1. (business) stipulation, clause, condition, term

Derived terms

Noun

cumha m (genitive singular cumha, plural cumhachan)

  1. lament, elegy, dirge
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