cuimilt
Irish
Alternative forms
- cimilt, comailt, cuimil, cumailt
Etymology
From Old Irish commailt.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkʌmˠəl̠ʲtʲ/[1] (corresponding to the form comailt)
Noun
cuimilt f (genitive singular cuimilte)
- verbal noun of cuimil
Further reading
- “cuimilt” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
- “comailt” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “commailt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- "cuimilt" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24