cumhang

Irish

Adjective

cumhang

  1. Superseded spelling of cúng.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cumhang chumhang gcumhang
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cumung, from Proto-Celtic *kom-ingus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂enǵʰ- (“tight, painfully constricted”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰũ.əŋk/

Adjective

cumhang

  1. narrow, close, tight
  2. close-minded, narrow-minded, illiberal
    'S e neach-dìolain cumhang! ― He’s a narrow-minded bastard!
    Cha chreid thu dè cho cumhang is a tha cridhe Chaluim! ― You would not believe how narrow-minded Calum is!

Noun

cumhang m (genitive singular cumhaing, plural cumhangan)

  1. narrow passage
  2. ravine, defile
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