cúnamh
Irish
Alternative forms
- congnamh (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Declension of cúnamh
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- áirse chúnta
- briathar cúnta
- comhlacht cúnta
- cúnamh a thabhairt do
- cúnamh airgid
- cúnamh dífhostaíochta
- cúnamh teaghlaigh
- cúntach
- féinchúnamh
- guta cúnta
- inneall cúnta
- lámh chúnta
- le cúnamh Dé
- lucht cúnta
- múinteoir cúnta
- teacht chun cúnaimh ar
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- 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
- “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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “congnam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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