tempul

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin templum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʲempul]

Noun

tempul m (genitive tempuil)

1. temple
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 8^d7

     is sissi in tempul sin

     ye are that temple

     [glossing 1 Corinthians 3:17: “for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are”]

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 139^c5

     isnaib templaib glosses in delubris idulorum

   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c

     Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.

     It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

2. church

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tempul	tempulL	tempuilL
Vocative	tempuil	tempulL	templuH
Accusative	tempulN	tempulL	templuH
Genitive	tempuilL	tempul	tempulN
Dative	tempulL	templaib	templaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: teampall
• Manx: çhiamble
• Scottish Gaelic: teampall

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tempul	thempul	tempul pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tempul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language