bigil

Garo

Etymology

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Noun

bigil

1. skin
2. bark (of a tree)

Irish

Alternative forms

• bhigil (as radical form)
• fighil
• uiccil, uigil, vigil (obsolete)

Etymology

From English vigil, from Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of feighil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪɟɪlʲ/

Noun

bigil f (genitive singular bigile, nominative plural bigilí)

1. (religion) vigil (eve of a religious festival)
2. (Roman Catholicism) abstinence (from certain foods on days of penitential observance)

Declension

Declension of bigil (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bigil bigilí vocative a bhigil a bhigilí genitive bigile bigilí dative bigil bigilí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhigil na bigilí genitive na bigile na mbigilí dative leis an mbigil don bhigil leis na bigilí

Mutation

Mutated forms of bigil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bigil	bhigil	mbigil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bigil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bigil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN