féile

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish féil (festival, feast day)[3] (compare Scottish Gaelic fèill), from Latin vigilia (wakefulness, watch), from vigil (awake), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (to be strong).

Noun

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féile f (genitive singular féile, nominative plural féilte)

  1. (Christianity) feast, feast day
  2. festival
    Synonym: feis
  3. hospitality
    Synonyms: aíocht, fáilte, flaithiúlacht
Declension
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish féile (modesty, generosity),[4] from Proto-Celtic *weiliyā (modesty). By surface analysis, fial +‎ -e. Cognate with Welsh gwyledd.

Noun

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féile f (genitive singular féile)

  1. generosity, hospitality
Declension
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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féile

  1. inflection of fial:
    1. feminine genitive singular
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féile fhéile bhféile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 318, page 111
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féil ‘festival’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féle ‘modesty, generosity’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *weiliyā (modesty), abstract noun from *weilos (modest), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (turn), which could be related to Latin vīlis (cheap, abundant).[1] By surface analysis, fíal +‎ -e. Cognate with Welsh gwyledd.

Noun

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féile f (genitive féili, no plural)

  1. modesty, generosity
Declension
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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative féileL
Vocative féileL
Accusative féiliN
Genitive féile
Dative féiliL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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féile f

  1. genitive singular of féil

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
féile ḟéile féile
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wēliyo/ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 409–10