feòil
See also: feoil
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish feóil. Cognate with Irish feoil, Manx feill.
Noun
feòil f (genitive singular feòla)
Derived terms
- ainfheòil (“proud flesh, corrupt flesh”)
- buileann feòla (“meat loaf”)
- circ-fheòil, circe-fheòil (“chicken”) (meat)
- daimh-fheòil (“beef”)
- féidh-fheoil (“venison”)
- feòil-caorach, 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”)
- feòladaireachd f (“butchery”)
- feòladair m (“butcher, flesher”)
- feòlan m (“proud flesh, flesh growing beyond the skin, excoriation”)
- feòlmhach m (“flesh-meat”)
- feòlmhor (“sensual, erotic; carnal, lustful; fleshy, fat; brutish, bestial”, adjective)
- feòlmhorachd f (“lust, carnality, fleshiness, bestiality”)
- mairtfheòil (“beef”)
- margadh na feòla m (“meat market”)
- muic-fheòil (“pork”)
- muilt-fheòil (“mutton”)
- seòmar-feòla m (“larder”)
- sùgh feòla m (“gravy”)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| feòil | fheòil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
Further reading
- 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