feoil

See also: feòil, feóil, and féoil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish féoil.[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic feòil, Manx feill.

Pronunciation

Noun

feoil f (genitive singular feola, nominative plural feolta)

  1. flesh, meat

Declension
Declension of feoil

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feoil feolta
Vocative a fheoil a fheolta
Genitive feola feolta
Dative feoil feolta

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fheoil na feolta
Genitive na feola na bhfeolta
Dative leis an bhfeoil

don fheoil

 leis na feolta

Hyponyms

Derived terms
  • ag ithe na feola fuaire (“backbiting”)
  • ainfheoil (“proud flesh”)
  • caoireoil (“mutton”)
  • circeoil (“chicken”)
  • dramhfheoil (“inferior meat, carrion”)
  • feoil anachana (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoil bhán (“fat meat”)
  • feoil bheo (“livestock”)
  • feoil chait (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
  • feoil chapaill (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
  • feoil chapaill (“horsemeat”)
  • feoil dhaonna (“human flesh”)
  • feoil dhearg (“lean meat”)
  • feoil éanlaithe (“flesh of fowl”)
  • feoil easpach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoil fhola (“red meat”)
  • feoil thubaiste (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoil thubaisteach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
  • feoilfhagóid (“faggot”)
  • feoiliteach (“carnivorous (of animal)”, adjective)
  • feoiliteoir (“carnivore”)
  • feoilmheall (“meatball”)
  • feoilséanadh (“vegetarianism”)
  • feoilséantach (“vegetarian”, adjective)
  • feoilséantóir (“vegetarian”, noun)
  • feoilsúiteach (“carnivorous (of plant)”, adjective)
  • feolaire (“flesher, butcher”)
  • feolaireacht (“butchery”)
  • feolamán (“fat, flabby, person”)
  • feolchar (“voracious”, adjective)
  • feolmhach (“fleshmeat; raw flesh”)
  • feolmhar (“fleshy; fat, flabby”, adjective)
  • fiafheoil (“(adult) venison”)
  • idir feoil is leathar (“under the skin”)
  • ionga i bhfeoil (“ingrowing nail”)
  • laofheoil (“veal”)
  • mairteoil (“beef”)
  • margadh feola (“meat market”)
  • méithfheoil (“fat meat”)
  • mionfheoil (“minced meat”)
  • muiceoil (“pork”)
  • oiseoil (“fawn meat, juvenile venison”)
  • paiteoil (“underdone meat”)
  • pióg fheola (“meat pie”)
  • seirgeoil (“jerked meat”)
  • tairteoil (“desiccated, meat”)
  • truafheoil (“lean meat”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feoil fheoil bhfeoil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “feóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 57, page 30
  3. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 113
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 32, page 16

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “feoil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 310
  • Entries containing “feoil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “feoil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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