fiafheoil

Irish

Alternative forms

• fiadhfheoil, fiadhfheóil (obsolete)

Etymology

From fia (“deer”) +‎ feoil (“meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʲiəˌoːlʲ]

Noun

fiafheoil f (genitive singular fiafheola)

1. venison (specifically, the meat of an adult deer)

Declension

Declension of fiafheoil (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative fiafheoil vocative a fhiafheoil genitive fiafheola dative fiafheoil forms with the definite article case singular nominative an fhiafheoil genitive na fiafheola dative leis an bhfiafheoil don fhiafheoil

Related terms

• oiseoil (“fawn meat, juvenile venison”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fiafheoil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fiafheoil	fhiafheoil	bhfiafheoil

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) “fiafheoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fiafheoil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fiafheoil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025