feoil

See also: feòil, feóil, and féoil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish féoil.[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic feòil, Manx feill.

Pronunciation

Noun

feoil f (genitive singular feola, nominative plural feolta)

  1. flesh, meat

Declension

Declension of feoil (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feoil feolta
vocative a fheoil a fheolta
genitive feola feolta
dative feoil feolta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fheoil na feolta
genitive na feola na bhfeolta
dative leis an bhfeoil
don fheoil 		leis na feolta

Hyponyms

Derived terms

  • ag ithe na feola fuaire (“backbiting”)
  • ainfheoil (“proud flesh”)
  • builín feola (“meatloaf”)
  • caoireoil (“mutton”)
  • circeoil (“chicken”)
  • dramhfheoil (“inferior meat, carrion”)
  • feoil anachana (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoil bhán (“fat meat”)
  • feoil bheo (“livestock”)
  • feoil chait (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
  • feoil chapaill (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
  • feoil chapaill (“horsemeat”)
  • feoil dhaonna (“human flesh”)
  • feoil dhearg (“lean meat”)
  • feoil éanlaithe (“flesh of fowl”)
  • feoil easpach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoil fhola (“red meat”)
  • feoil thubaiste (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoil thubaisteach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoilfhagóid (“faggot”)
  • feoiliteach (“carnivorous (of animal)”, adjective)
  • feoiliteoir (“carnivore”)
  • feoilmheall (“meatball”)
  • feoilséanadh (“vegetarianism”)
  • feoilséantach (“vegetarian”, adjective)
  • feoilséantóir (“vegetarian”, noun)
  • feoilsúiteach (“carnivorous (of plant)”, adjective)
  • feolaire (“flesher, butcher”)
  • feolaireacht (“butchery”)
  • feolamán (“fat, flabby, person”)
  • feolchar (“voracious”, adjective)
  • feolmhach (“fleshmeat; raw flesh”)
  • feolmhar (“fleshy; fat, flabby”, adjective)
  • fiafheoil (“(adult) venison”)
  • idir feoil is leathar (“under the skin”)
  • ionga i bhfeoil (“ingrowing nail”)
  • laofheoil (“veal”)
  • mairteoil (“beef”)
  • margadh feola (“meat market”)
  • méithfheoil (“fat meat”)
  • mionfheoil (“minced meat”)
  • muiceoil (“pork”)
  • oiseoil (“fawn meat, juvenile venison”)
  • paiteoil (“underdone meat”)
  • pióg fheola (“meat pie”)
  • seirgeoil (“jerked meat”)
  • tairteoil (“desiccated, meat”)
  • truafheoil (“lean meat”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feoil
radical lenition eclipsis
feoil fheoil bhfeoil

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 57, page 30
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 113
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 32, page 16

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