Talk:féilire

Other meanings

@Mahagaja, the eDIL says that this word also means "Esp. a calendar of religious festivals, a martyrology". Do you think that is citable? If so, it might be a nice FWOTD for for All Saints' Day. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 09:15, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

@Lingo Bingo Dingo: I don't know; eDIL says it only has that meaning in titles and only gives one example, Feilire na náomh, feilire i Ghormáin, where na naomh means "of the saints", so it looks like even there féilire by itself wouldn't have been understood with that meaning. Page 262 of this Ph.D. thesis translates it "festilogy" in that same example. If there are good examples of it meaning "martyrology" or "festilogy" without being modified by na naomh or the like, I don't know where to find them. —Mahāgaja · talk 09:38, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

@Mahagaja:: It seems that the Old Irish Félire Óengusso is sometimes (partially?) modernised to Féilire Óengusso. Less often I similarly find mentions of a Féilire Thamhlachta and, rarely and in print only in English contexts, a Féilire Húi Gormáin. It seems restricted to titles indeed. But all this may well be undurable and too marginal to count for attestation anyway... ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 09:54, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

I wouldn't call féilire a modernization necessarily; that first i is optionally present even in Old Irish, e.g. it's spelled feilere in the ninth-century Glosses on the Vienna Beda no. 36. Féilire Húi Gormáin is of course another spelling of the feilire i Ghormáin I mentioned above. At any rate, this entry is for modern Irish (from the 13th century to the present), so older uses wouldn't count toward attestation anyway. —Mahāgaja · talk 10:17, 17 September 2022 (UTC)