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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *temeslos, from Proto-Indo-European *témHeslo- (“darkness”) (compare Sanskrit तमिस्रा (támisrā, “dark night”), Old High German demar (“twilight”), Latin tenebrae (“darkness”), from *temH-).
Pronunciation
Noun
temel m (genitive temil)
- darkness
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 30a3
Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in ḟortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.- As what is done in this is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.
Declension
Masculine o-stem
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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temel
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Vocative
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temil
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Accusative
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temelN
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Genitive
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temilL
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Dative
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temulL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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temel
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themel
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temel pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تمل (temel), from Greek θεμέλιο (themélio, “foundation, base”), from Ancient Greek θεμέλιος (themélios, “belonging to the foundation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
temel (definite accusative temeli, plural temeller)
- fundament, basics
- ground, foundation
- background
Declension
Derived terms
Adjective
temel
- basic
Derived terms