cúnamh
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- congnamh (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish congnam, verbal noun of con·gní. By surface analysis, cún(aigh) + -amh.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈkuːn̪ˠəvˠ/
- (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈkuːnə/, /ˈkoːnə/[1][2]
- (Connemara) IPA(key): /ˈkuːnˠə/, /ˈkuːn̪ˠə/
- (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈkuːnˠuː/, /ˈkuːn̪ˠuː/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkuːnˠu/, [ˈkũːnˠũ]; /ˈkuːn̪ˠu/, [ˈkũːn̪ˠũ][3]
Noun
[edit]cúnamh m (genitive singular as substantive cúnaimh, genitive as verbal noun cúnta)
- verbal noun of cúnaigh
- help, aid, assistance
- D’ordaigh Dia cúnamh; is maith le Dia (féin) cúnamh.
- God helps those who help themselves.
Declension
[edit]Declension of cúnamh
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cúnamh | chúnamh | gcúnamh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 166
- ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 452
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 65
Further reading
[edit]- “cúnamh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “congnaṁ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 180
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúnamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “congnam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms suffixed with -amh
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish verbal nouns
- Irish terms with usage examples
- Irish first-declension nouns