cluimhreach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently from clúmh (“down, feathers”), though the shortening of the vowel is unexplained.

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈklˠɨ̃vʲɾʲa(x)/[2]

Noun

cluimhreach f (genitive singular cluimhrí) or
cluimhreach m (genitive singular cluimhrigh)

  1. plumage (collection of feathers covering a bird’s body), feathers

Declension

As a feminine second-declension noun:

Declension of cluimhreach (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cluimhreach
vocative a chluimhreach
genitive cluimhrí
dative cluimhreach
cluimhrigh (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an chluimhreach
genitive na cluimhrí
dative leis an gcluimhreach
leis an gcluimhrigh (archaic, dialectal)
don chluimhreach
don chluimhrigh (archaic, dialectal)

As a masculine first-declension noun:

Declension of cluimhreach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cluimhreach
vocative a chluimhrigh
genitive cluimhrigh
dative cluimhreach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cluimhreach
genitive an chluimhrigh
dative leis an gcluimhreach
don chluimhreach

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cluimhreach
radical lenition eclipsis
cluimhreach chluimhreach gcluimhreach

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

References

  1. ^ “cluimhreach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 98, page 39

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