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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bigil	bhigil	mbigil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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