tapúil

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

tapúil (genitive singular masculine tapúil, genitive singular feminine tapúla, plural tapúla, comparative tapúla)

1. quick, sweeping, prompt
2. active

Declension

Declension of tapúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	tapúil	thapúil	tapúla; thapúla²
Vocative	thapúil		tapúla
Genitive		tapúla	tapúla	tapúil
Dative	tapúil; thapúil¹	thapúil	tapúla; thapúla²
Comparative	níos tapúla
Superlative	is tapúla

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tapúil	thapúil	dtapúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tapúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN