feoil

See also feòil

Irish

Alternative forms

• feóil (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish feóil. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic feòil.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA: [fʲoːlʲ]
• (Ulster) IPA: [fʲɔːlʲ]

Noun

feoil f (genitive 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

Derived terms

Terms derived from feoil

ainfheoil caoireoil circeoil feoiliteach feolaire feolaireacht feolmhach

feolmhar (“fleshy; fat, flabby”) fiafheoil laofheoil mairteoil muiceoil oiseoil pióg fheola

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

• "feoil" in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, vol. II, 113.
• E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal, page 16, § 32.