cumhachd

power, so Irish, Old Irish cumachte, Welsh cyfoeth, power, riches, *kom-akto, root ag, drive, carry, Latin ago, Greek $$Ga$$'/gw, English act, etc. (Stokes). The Old Irish cumang, potestas, is doubtless a nasalised form of the root ag (=ang); it has been referred to the root ang, Latin angere, etc., as in cumhang below, but the meaning is unsatisfactory. The word cumhachd has also been analysed as co-mag-tu-, where mag has been bariously referred to Indo-European meg, great (Gaelic $$Gmégas, English much), or Indo-European me$$-gh (English may, Latin machina, machine).