feòil
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish féoil. Cognate with Irish feoil, Manx feill.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]feòil f (genitive singular feòla)
Declension
[edit]Declension of feòil (type IVa feminine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | feòil | feòilean |
Genitive | feòla | fheòilean |
Dative | feòil | feòilean; feòilibh✝ |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (an) fheòil | (na) feòilean |
Genitive | (na) feòla | (nam) feòilean |
Dative | (an) fheòil | (na) feòilean; feòilibh✝ |
Vocative | fheòil | fheòla; fheòilean |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
- Alternative genitive singular: feòladh (Uist, Barra)
Derived terms
[edit]- ainfheòil (“proud flesh, corrupt flesh”)
- buileann feòla (“meat loaf”)
- circ-fheòil (“chicken (meat)”)
- circe-fheòil (“chicken (meat)”)
- daimh-fheòil (“beef”)
- féidh-fheoil (“venison”)
- feòil-caorach (“mutton”)
- feòil-chaorach (“mutton”)
- feòil-itheach (“carnivorous”, adjective)
- feòil-itheadair m (“carnivore”)
- feòil-laoigh (“veal”)
- feòil-muice (“pork”)
- feòil-uain (“lamb (meat)”)
- feòlach m (“carnage, slaughter”)
- feòladair m (“butcher, flesher”)
- feòladaireachd f (“butchery”)
- feòlan m (“proud flesh, excoriation”)
- feòlmhach m (“flesh-meat”)
- feòlmhor (“carnal, fleshy”, adjective)
- feòlmhorachd f (“carnality, fleshiness”)
- mairtfheòil (“beef”)
- margadh na feòla m (“meat market”)
- muicfheòil (“pork”)
- muilt-fheòil (“mutton”)
- seòmar-feòla m (“larder”)
- sùgh feòla m (“gravy”)
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
feòil | fheòil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “feòil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language