teach pobail

Irish

Literally ‘people’s house’.

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˌtʲax ˈpˠɔbˠəlʲ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˌtʲax ə ˈfˠʌbˠəlʲ/^[1] (corresponding to the form teach an phobail)

teach pobail m (genitive singular tí pobail, nominative plural tithe pobail)

church (building)
Synonym: eaglais
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
  D’imthigh sé leis arís, ⁊ casadh air teach-phobuil, ⁊ chuaidh sé isteach ann. […] D’imthigh an buachaill amach as an tigh phobuil arís, ⁊ fuair sé é féin i ngarrdha áluinn breágh plúr, ⁊ bhain sé ceann do na plúra’ ⁊ thug leis é. […] D’innis an buachaill dó fá’n tigh-phobuil ⁊ fá’n Aifrionn ⁊ na sé colmáin a tháinic ag éisteacht leis.
  He again went his way, and came upon a church, and he went into it. […] The youth went out of the church again, and found himself in a lovely, fine garden of flowers, and he pulled one of the flowers and brought it with him. […] The youth told him about the church and the Mass, and the six doves that came hearing it.
chapel
Synonym: séipéal

The term teach pobail is used only of Roman Catholic churches and chapels. Protestant churches are called teampall.

Declension of teach pobail (irregular)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	teach pobail	tithe pobail
vocative	a theach phobail	a thithe pobail
genitive	tí pobail	tithe pobail
dative	teach pobail, teach phobail, tigh phobail	tithe pobail

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an teach pobail	na tithe pobail
genitive	an tí pobail	na dtithe pobail
dative	leis an teach pobail don teach pobail	leis na tithe pobail

Mutated forms of *teach pobail*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
teach pobail	theach pobail	dteach pobail

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

^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 310, page 109