feoil

See also: feòil, feóil, and féoil

Irish

Alternative forms

• feóil (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish féoil. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic feòil, Manx feill.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fʲoːlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fʲɔːlʲ/

Noun

feoil f (genitive singular 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

Hyponyms

• bánbhia (“white meat”)

Derived terms

• ag ithe na feola fuaire (“backbiting”)
• ainfheoil (“proud flesh”)
• caoireoil (“mutton”)
• circeoil (“chicken”)
• dramhfheoil (“inferior meat, carrion”)
• feoil anachana (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoil bhán (“fat meat”)
• feoil bheo (“livestock”)
• feoil chait (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
• feoil chapaill (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
• feoil chapaill (“horsemeat”)
• feoil dhaonna (“human flesh”)
• feoil dhearg (“lean meat”)
• feoil éanlaithe (“flesh of fowl”)
• feoil easpach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoil fhola (“red meat”)
• feoil thubaiste (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoil thubaisteach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoilfhagóid (“faggot”)
• feoiliteach (“carnivorous (of animal)”, adjective)
• feoiliteoir (“carnivore”)
• feoilmheall (“meatball”)
• feoilséanadh (“vegetarianism”)
• feoilséantach (“vegetarian”, adjective)
• feoilséantóir (“vegetarian”, noun)
• feoilsúiteach (“carnivorous (of plant)”, adjective)
• feolaire (“flesher, butcher”)
• feolaireacht (“butchery”)
• feolamán (“fat, flabby, person”)
• feolchar (“voracious”, adjective)
• feolmhach (“fleshmeat; raw flesh”)
• feolmhar (“fleshy; fat, flabby”, adjective)
• fiafheoil (“(adult) venison”)
• idir feoil is leathar (“under the skin”)
• ionga i bhfeoil (“ingrowing nail”)
• laofheoil (“veal”)
• mairteoil (“beef”)
• margadh feola (“meat market”)
• méithfheoil (“fat meat”)
• mionfheoil (“minced meat”)
• muiceoil (“pork”)
• oiseoil (“fawn meat, juvenile venison”)
• paiteoil (“underdone meat”)
• pióg fheola (“meat pie”)
• seirgeoil (“jerked meat”)
• tairteoil (“desiccated, meat”)
• truafheoil (“lean meat”)

 

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “feoil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 310
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “feoil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “feoil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024