féil

See also: feil and Feil

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʲeːlʲ/

Adjective

féil

1. inflection of fial:
   1. vocative/genitive singular masculine
   2. (archaic) dative singular feminine

Mutation

Mutated forms of féil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
féil	fhéil	bhféil

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

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).

Noun

féil f (genitive féile, nominative plural féili)

1. (Christianity) festival, feast day

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	féilL	féilL	féiliH
vocative	féilL	féilL	féiliH
accusative	féiliN	féilL	féiliH
genitive	féileH	féileL	féileN
dative	féiliL	féilib	féilib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• félire
  • Irish: féilire

Descendants

• Irish: féile
• Manx: feaill, feailley
• Scottish Gaelic: fèill

Mutation

Mutation of féil

radical	lenition	nasalization
féil	ḟéil	féil pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old 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), “1 féil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language