feoilséantóir
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]feoil (“meat”) + séantóir (“denier”), itself from séan (“to deny, refute”) + -tóir (“-er”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲoːlʲʃia̯n̪ˠˌt̪ˠoːrʲ/
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲoːlʲˌʃeːn̪ˠt̪ˠoːrʲ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲɔːlʲˌʃeːn̪ˠt̪ˠɔrʲ/
Noun
[edit]feoilséantóir m (genitive singular feoilséantóra, nominative plural feoilséantóirí)
- vegetarian (person who avoids eating animal flesh)
- Synonym: veigeatóir
Declension
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Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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feoilséantóir | fheoilséantóir | bhfeoilséantóir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feoilséantóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN