Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish fell (deceit, treachery),[2] from Proto-Celtic *welsos.

Noun

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feall m (genitive singular fill, nominative plural feallanna)

  1. deceit, treachery, bad faith
  2. let-down, failure
Declension
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish fellaid (act deceitfully), from fell.[3]

Verb

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feall (present analytic feallann, future analytic feallfaidh, verbal noun fealladh, past participle feallta)

  1. (intransitive, with ar) prove false to, betray; fail; cheat
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Derived terms
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feall fheall bhfeall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 206, page 79
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fellaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Middle English

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Noun

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feall

  1. Alternative form of feal

Old English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fæ͜ɑll/, [fæ͜ɑɫ]

Noun

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feall n

  1. Alternative form of fiell