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oiseoil

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish osḟeóil.[2] By surface analysis, os (deer) +‎ feoil (meat).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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oiseoil f (genitive singular oiseola)

  1. venison

Declension

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Declension of oiseoil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative oiseoil
vocative a oiseoil
genitive oiseola
dative oiseoil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an oiseoil
genitive na hoiseola
dative leis an oiseoil
don oiseoil

Synonyms

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Mutation

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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.

References

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  1. ^ oiseoil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 os(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 110, page 43

Further reading

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