imeall

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish imbel (“edge, rim, border, margin”) (compare also immellach (“bordering, surrounding; outermost”, adjective)). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic iomall.

Pronunciation

Noun

imeall m (genitive singular imill, nominative plural imill)

  1. border, edge, rim, margin

Declension

Declension of imeall

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative imeall imill
Vocative a imill a imealla
Genitive imill imeall
Dative imeall imill

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-imeall na himill
Genitive an imill na n-imeall
Dative leis an imeall

don imeall

leis na himill

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
imeall n-imeall himeall t-imeall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “imbel ?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40

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