Irish
- oisfheoil, oisfheóil, ois-fheoil, ois-fheóil (obsolete)[1]
Etymology
From Middle Irish osḟeóil.[2] By surface analysis, os (“deer”) + feoil (“meat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
oiseoil f (genitive singular oiseola)
- venison
Declension
Declension of oiseoil (third declension, no plural)
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Synonyms
Mutation
Mutated forms of oiseoil
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| oiseoil
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n-oiseoil
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hoiseoil
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not applicable
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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.
References
- ^ “oiseoil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 os(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 110, page 43
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ois-ḟeoil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 818; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oiseoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
