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timpeall

Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

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 edit

Adverb edit

timpeall

  1. around, about
  2. about, approximately

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Preposition edit

timpeall (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

  1. around, about

Synonyms edit

Interjection edit

timpeall!

  1. (sailing) lee ho!

Mutation edit

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 edit

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 188

Further reading edit

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