cumar

See also: Cumar

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

cumar m (genitive singular cumair, nominative plural cumair)

  1. ravine (usually with stream)
  2. steep-sided inlet (of sea)
  3. channel, rut

Declension
Declension of cumar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cumar cumair
Vocative a chumair a chumara
Genitive cumair cumar
Dative cumar cumair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cumar na cumair
Genitive an chumair na gcumar
Dative leis an gcumar

don chumar

 leis na cumair

Derived terms
  • cumarach (“channelled, rutted”)

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

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “cumar” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “cumar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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