feis

Borrowed from Irish feis.

• IPA^(key): /fɛʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

feis (plural feiseanna)

1. (Ireland) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
2. (Ireland) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.

• Fèis, the Scottish equivalent, and eisteddfod, the Welsh equivalent.

• EFIs, ISEF, ISFE, fise, seif

From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).

• IPA^(key): /fʲɛʃ/

feis f (genitive singular feise, nominative plural feiseanna)

1. (literary)
   1. act of sleeping, of passing the night
   2. accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper
2. (literary)
   1. sleeping together, sexual intercourse
   2. espousal, marriage
3. festival

   Synonym: féile

   1. Irish language festival (with competitions)
4. (literature) feast tale

• Ard-Fheis (“national convention”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “feis” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “feis” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• fes, fiste

feis

1. simple past of fise

From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).

• IPA^(key): /feʃ/

feis f (genitive singular feise)

1. sex, intercourse

• Not to be confused with fèis (“a festival”).

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “feis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language