imeall

Irish

From Old Irish imbel (“edge, rim, border, margin”)^[1] (compare also immellach (“bordering, surrounding; outermost”, adjective)). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic iomall.

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞mˠəl̪ˠ/, /ˈɯmˠəl̪ˠ/, /ˈʊmˠəl̪ˠ/^[2] (corresponding to the form iomall)
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmʲəl̪ˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞mʲəl̪ˠ/^[3]

imeall m (genitive singular imill, nominative plural imill)

Declension of imeall (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an t-imeall	na himill
genitive	an imill	na n-imeall
dative	leis an imeall don imeall	leis na himill

imeallach m (“marginal land; marshy shore-land”)
imeallach (“bordering, marginal, peripheral; bordered, fringed, rimmed”, adjective)
imeallbhord m (“border, verge, margin; coastline”)
imeallchóras m (“peripheral system”)
imeallchríoch f (“border, frontier”)
imeallstad m (“marginal stop”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imeall	n-imeall	himeall	t-imeall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imbel ?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40