Irish
- fiadhfheoil, fiadhfheóil (obsolete)
Etymology
From fia (“deer”) + feoil (“meat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fiafheoil f (genitive singular fiafheola)
- venison (specifically, the meat of an adult deer)
Declension
Declension of fiafheoil (third declension, no plural)
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- oiseoil (“fawn meat, juvenile venison”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of fiafheoil
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| fiafheoil
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fhiafheoil
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bhfiafheoil
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiafheoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fiafheoil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “fiafheoil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025