tempul

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin templum.

Noun

tempul m (genitive tempuil)

1. temple
   • 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. 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”]

2. church

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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.

References

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