timpeallach

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Irish

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Etymology

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From timpeall (“round, circuit; roundabout; surrounding, encircling position; circumference, girth”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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timpeallach (genitive singular masculine timpeallaigh, genitive singular feminine timpeallaí, plural timpeallacha, comparative timpeallaí)

  1. roundabout, circuitous
  2. ambient, surrounding
  3. large of girth

Declension

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Declension of timpeallach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative timpeallach thimpeallach timpeallacha;
thimpeallacha²
Vocative thimpeallaigh timpeallacha
Genitive timpeallaí timpeallacha timpeallach
Dative timpeallach;
thimpeallach¹ 		thimpeallach;
thimpeallaigh (archaic) 		timpeallacha;
thimpeallacha²
Comparative níos timpeallaí
Superlative is timpeallaí

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

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  • timpeallacht f (“surroundings, environment, milieu; entourage”)

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
timpeallach thimpeallach dtimpeallach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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