timpeall

Irish

Alternative forms
  • timcheall (superseded)
  • timpall, tímpall (nonstandard)
  • tímpeall (nonstandard)
  • tiompall, tíompall (nonstandard)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈtʲiːmˠpˠəl̪ˠ/[1]
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈtʲiːmʲpʲəl̪ˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈtʲɪmʲpʲəl̪ˠ/

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

Preposition

timpeall (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

  1. around, about

Synonyms
  • (around, about): i dtimpeall, timpeall ar

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. M. L. Sjoestedt-Jonval (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, p. 188.
  • “timchell” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “timcheall” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • "timpeall" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
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