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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
félire	ḟélire	félire pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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