feoil

See also: feóil and feòil

Irish

Alternative forms

feóil (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish feóil. 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)

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

ag ithe na feola fuaire (“backbiting, slandering, people”)
ainfheoil (“proud flesh”)
caoireoil (“mutton”)
circeoil (“chicken”)
dramhfheoil (“inferior meat, carrion”)
feoil bhán (“fat meat”)
feoil bheo (“livestock”)
feoil chait, feoil chapaill (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
feoil chapaill (“horsemeat”)
feoil dhaonna (“human flesh”)
feoil dhearg, truafheoil (“lean meat”)
feoil éanlaithe (“flesh of fowl”)
feoilfhagóid (“faggot”)
feoil fhola (“red meat”)

feoiliteach (“carnivorous”, adjective) (of animal)
feoiliteoir (“carnivore”)
feoil mhairt, mairteoil (“beef”)
feoilmheall (“meatball”)
feoilséanadh (“vegetarianism”)
feoilséantach (“vegetarian”, adjective)
feoilséantóir (“vegetarian”, noun)
feoilsúiteach (“carnivorous”, adjective) (of plant)
feoil thubaiste, feoil thubaisteach, feoil anachana, feoil easpach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
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”)
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 (“dried-up, desiccated, meat; lean meat”)

See also

bánbhia (“white 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

"feoil" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“feoil” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
“feóil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 113.
Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 16, § 32.
Entries containing “feoil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “feoil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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