timpeall

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Irish[edit]

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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

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Adverb[edit]

timpeall

  1. around, about
  2. about, approximately

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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

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