ciumhais

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cimas (“edge, border, limit”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /cuːʃ/
  • IPA(key): /cũːsˠ/[1] (corresponding to the form ciumhas)

Noun

ciumhais f (genitive singular ciumhaise, nominative plural ciumhaiseanna or ciumhsa)

  1. border, edge, edging, fringe, verge
  2. strip
  3. (Cois Fharraige) single-width blanket
  4. outskirts
  5. (astronomy) limb (apparent visual edge)

Declension
Declension of ciumhais

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ciumhais ciumhaiseanna
Vocative a chiumhais a chiumhaiseanna
Genitive ciumhaise ciumhaiseanna
Dative ciumhais ciumhaiseanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chiumhais na ciumhaiseanna
Genitive na ciumhaise na gciumhaiseanna
Dative leis an gciumhais

don chiumhais

 leis na ciumhaiseanna

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • ciumhais bhlaincéid, ciumhais phluide (“strip of blanket; single blanket”)
  • ciumhais éadaigh (“edging, selvage, of cloth”)
  • ciumhais leathanaigh (“margin of page”)
  • ciumhais talaimh (“strip of land”)
  • ciumhaisín (“small head-stone”)
  • ciumhsach (“bordered, fringed”, adjective)
  • ciumhsóg (“narrow border; small blanket”)
  • faoi chiumhais (“bordered”)
  • scian chiumhaise (“plough”)

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

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 23

Further reading
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