feòil

See also: feoil, feóil, and féoil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish féoil. Cognate with Irish feoil, Manx feill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɔːl/

Noun

feòil f (genitive singular feòla)

1. flesh
2. meat

Declension

Declension of feòil (type IVa feminine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	feòil	feòilean
genitive	feòla	fheòilean
dative	feòil	feòilean; feòilibh✝
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(an) fheòil	(na) feòilean
genitive	(na) feòla	(nam) feòilean
dative	(an) fheòil	(na) feòilean; feòilibh✝
vocative	fheòil	fheòla; fheòilean

^✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

• Alternative genitive singular: feòladh (Uist, Barra)

Derived terms

• ainfheòil (“proud flesh, corrupt flesh”)
• buileann feòla (“meat loaf”)
• circ-fheòil (“chicken (meat)”)
• circe-fheòil (“chicken (meat)”)
• daimh-fheòil (“beef”)
• fèidhfheòil (“venison”)
• feòil-caorach (“mutton”)
• feòil-chaorach (“mutton”)
• feòil-itheach (“carnivorous”, adjective)
• feòil-itheadair m (“carnivore”)
• feòil-laoigh (“veal”)
• feòil-muice (“pork”)
• feòil-uain (“lamb (meat)”)
• feòlach m (“carnage, slaughter”)
• feòladair m (“butcher, flesher”)
• feòladaireachd f (“butchery”)
• feòlan m (“proud flesh, excoriation”)
• feòlmhach m (“flesh-meat”)
• feòlmhor (“carnal, fleshy”, adjective)
• feòlmhorachd f (“carnality, fleshiness”)
• mairtfheòil (“beef”)
• margadh na feòla m (“meat market”)
• muicfheòil (“pork”)
• muilt-fheòil (“mutton”)
• seòmar-feòla m (“larder”)
• sùgh feòla m (“gravy”)

Mutation

Mutation of feòil

radical	lenition
feòil	fheòil

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “feòil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language