feis

See also: Feis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish feis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

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.

See also

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲɛʃ/

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feis fheis bhfeis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

feis

  1. simple past of fise

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feʃ/

Noun

feis f (genitive singular feise)

  1. sex, intercourse

Usage notes

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

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
feisfheis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • 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
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