oiseoil

Irish

Alternative forms

• oisfheoil, oisfheóil (obsolete)

Etymology

From os (“deer”) +‎ feoil (“meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʃˌoːlʲ/, /ˈɪʃˌoːlʲ/

Noun

oiseoil f (genitive singular oiseola)

1. venison (specifically, the meat of a fawn)

Declension

Declension of oiseoil (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative oiseoil vocative a oiseoil genitive oiseola dative oiseoil forms with the definite article case singular nominative an oiseoil genitive na hoiseola dative leis an oiseoil don oiseoil

Related terms

• fiafheoil (“venison”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of oiseoil

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oiseoil	n-oiseoil	hoiseoil	not applicable

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) “oiseoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43