ciumhais - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Old Irish cimas (“edge, border, limit”).[1]
ciumhais f (genitive singular ciumhaise, nominative plural ciumhaiseanna or ciumhsa)
- border, edge, edging, fringe, verge
- strip
- (Cois Fharraige) single-width blanket
- outskirts
- (astronomy) limb (apparent visual edge)
- Alternative plurals: ciumhsa, ciumhaiseacha
- (outskirts): imeachtar
- ciumhaisín (“small head-stone”)
- ciumhsach (“bordered, fringed”, adjective)
- ciumhsóg (“narrow border; small blanket”)
- faoi chiumhais (“bordered”)
- scian chiumhaise (“plough”)
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| ciumhais | chiumhais | gciumhais |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cimas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974) Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word List from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 43
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 418, page 136
- ^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, section 1406, page 321
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 51, page 23
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ciuṁais”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 142
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciumhais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN