féoil

See also: feoil, feòil, and feóil

Old Irish

Alternative forms

féuil

Etymology

Unknown. MacBain reconstructs a Proto-Celtic *weɸolis and associates it with Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “fat”), वपुस् (vápus, “body”);^[1] Pedersen connects it with Middle Breton guentl (“gout”), Breton gwentr, gwentl (“severe pain”), implying a Proto-Celtic *wentlis.^[2] Fleuriot expresses doubt in Pedersen's etymology.^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɸʲeːu̯lʲ]

Noun

féoil f (genitive féola)

flesh
- 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. 22^d7
  ho rudeda ind ḟéuil forsnaib cnamaib, cita·biat iarum in chnamai in fochaid
  when the flesh has melted away on the bones, then the bones feel the suffering
(often in the plural) meat
- 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. 97^d10
  Is peccad díabul lesom .i. fodord doïb di dommatu, ⁊ du·fúairthed ní leu fora sáith din main, ⁊ todlugud inna féulæ ɔ amairis nánda·tibérad Día doïb, ⁊ nach coimnacuir ⁊ issi dano insin ind frescissiu co fochaid.
  It is a double sin in his opinion, i.e. the murmuring by them of want, although there remained some of the manna with them upon their satiety, and demanding the meat with faithlessness that God would not give it to them, and [even] that he could not; therefore that is the expectation with testing.

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	féoil	féoil^L	féolai^H
vocative	féoil	féoil^L	féolai^H
accusative	féoil^N	féoil^L	féolai^H
genitive	féolo^H, féola^H	féolo^H, féola^H	féolae^N, féulæ
dative	féoil^L	féolaib	féolaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: feoil
Manx: feill
Scottish Gaelic: feòil

Mutation

Mutation of *féoil*
radical	lenition	nasalization
féoil	ḟéoil	féoil pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

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

References

^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “féoil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 170
^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 88.3, page 139
^ Fleuriot, Léon, Evans, Claude (1985) “uintlum”, in A Dictionary of Old Breton – Dictionnaire du vieux breton: Historical and Comparative (in French), Toronto: Prepcorp, page 327