cuimbre
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Old Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cuimbre f (genitive cuimbre)
- brevity, shortness
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d3
- cid écen aisndís do neuch as doruid co léir, ní sechmalfaider cuimre and dano
- though it is necessary to explain carefully anything that is difficult, however brevity will not be passed by
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d3
Declension[edit]
Feminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cuimbreL | — | — |
Vocative | cuimbreL | — | — |
Accusative | cuimbriN | — | — |
Genitive | cuimbre | — | — |
Dative | cuimbriL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants[edit]
- Irish: coimre
Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cuimbre | chuimbre | cuimbre pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuimbre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language