timpeall

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish timchell, verbal noun of do·imchella (“go around, surround”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

timpeall m (genitive singular timpill, nominative plural timpill)

  1. round, circuit; roundabout
  2. surrounding, encircling position
  3. ambit, precinct
  4. (geometry) circumference
  5. girth

Declension

Declension of timpeall

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative timpeall timpill
Vocative a thimpill a thimpealla
Genitive timpill timpeall
Dative timpeall timpill

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an timpeall na timpill
Genitive an timpill na dtimpeall
Dative leis an timpeall

don timpeall

leis na timpill

Derived terms

Adverb

timpeall

  1. around, about
  2. about, approximately

Synonyms

Derived terms

Preposition

timpeall (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

  1. around, about

Synonyms

Interjection

timpeall!

  1. (sailing) lee ho!

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
timpeall thimpeall dtimpeall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “timpeall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “timchell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 188
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 366, page 125

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