félire

See also: felire

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin *vigiliārium; compare féil (“religious festival”).

Noun

félire m

1. calendar

   Félire Óengusso

   the Calendar of Óengus (name of a 9th-century calendar)

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	félire	félireL	féliriL
vocative	féliri	félireL	féliriu
accusative	félireN	félireL	féliriuH
genitive	féliriL	félireL	félireN
dative	féliriuL	félirib	félirib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• → Old Breton: guiler
• → Old Welsh: gueleri

Mutation

Mutation of félire

radical	lenition	nasalization
félire	ḟélire	félire pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “félire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language