feolaire

Irish

Etymology

From feoil (“meat, flesh”) +‎ -aire.

Noun

feolaire m (genitive singular feolaire, nominative plural feolairí)

1. flesher, butcher

   Synonym: búistéir

Declension

Declension of feolaire (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative feolaire feolairí vocative a fheolaire a fheolairí genitive feolairí feolairí dative feolaire feolairí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an feolaire na feolairí genitive an fheolairí na bhfeolairí dative leis an bhfeolaire don fheolaire leis na feolairí

Derived terms

• feolaireacht f (“butchery”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feolaire

radical	lenition	eclipsis
feolaire	fheolaire	bhfeolaire

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feolaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN