féile
Irish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish féil (“festival, feast day”)[3] (compare Scottish Gaelic fèill), from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).
Noun
editféile f (genitive singular féile, nominative plural féilte)
- (Christianity) feast, feast day
- festival
- Synonym: feis
- hospitality
- Synonyms: aíocht, fáilte, flaithiúlacht
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- Féile Satairn
- lá féile/Lá Fhéile
- Oíche Fhéile Eoin
- tine Fhéile Eoin (“Saint John's Eve bonfire”)
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Irish féile (“modesty, generosity”),[4] from Proto-Celtic *wēliyā (“modesty”). By surface analysis, fial + -e. Cognate with Welsh gwyledd.
Noun
editféile f (genitive singular féile)
Declension
edit
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
editféile
- inflection of fial:
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
féile | fhéile | bhféile |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 318, page 111
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féil ‘festival’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féle ‘modesty, generosity’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
edit- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féil ‘vigil’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 307
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féile ‘generosity’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 308
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “féile”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “féile”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Celtic *wēliyā (“modesty”), abstract noun from *wēlos (“modest”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“turn”), which could be related to Latin vīlis (“cheap, abundant”).[1] By surface analysis, fíal + -e. Cognate with Welsh gwyledd.
Noun
editféile f (genitive féili, no plural)
Declension
editFeminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | féileL | — | — |
Vocative | féileL | — | — |
Accusative | féiliN | — | — |
Genitive | féile | — | — |
Dative | féiliL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editféile f
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
féile | ḟéile | féile pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wēliyo/ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 409–10
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