sampla

Irish

Alternative forms

• siompla, sompla, sómpla (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish sompla, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum.

Noun

sampla m (genitive singular sampla, nominative plural samplaí)

1. example
2. sample

Declension

Declension of sampla (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sampla samplaí vocative a shampla a shamplaí genitive sampla samplaí dative sampla samplaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sampla na samplaí genitive an tsampla na samplaí dative leis an sampla don sampla leis na samplaí

Derived terms

• mar shampla

Related terms

• eiseamláir

Mutation

Mutated forms of sampla

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sampla	shampla after an, tsampla	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “sampla”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sompla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sampla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sampla”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “sampla”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025