cumbair

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ berr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkum.bəɾʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈkum.bɪɾʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈkum.bɨɾʲ]

Adjective

cumbair

1. short, brief, concise

Declension

i-stem

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cumbair	cumbair	cumbair
vocative	cumbair
accusative	cumbair	cumbair
genitive	cumbair	cuimbre	cumbair
dative	cumbair	cumbair	cumbair
plural	masculine	feminine/neuter
nominative	cuimbri	cuimbri
vocative	cuimbri
accusative	cuimbri
genitive	cumbair* cuimbre
dative	cuimbrib

*not when substantivized

Derived terms

• cuimbre

Descendants

• Irish: comair
• Manx: cumir
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimir

Mutation

Mutation of cumbair

radical	lenition	nasalization
cumbair	chumbair	cumbair pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cummair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language