feaill

Manx

Alternative forms

• feailley

Etymology

From Old Irish féil (compare Irish féile, Scottish Gaelic fèill), from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).

Noun

feaill f (genitive singular feailley, plural feaillyn)

1. (religion) holiday, festival

Derived terms

• ard-eailley
• Feailley Çhybbyrt Ushtey
• Feailley Sarn
• Feaill' Vaayl

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feaill	eaill	veaill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language