feoil

See also: feòil, feóil, and féoil

Irish

Alternative forms

• feóil (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish féoil. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic feòil, Manx feill.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fʲoːlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fʲɔːlʲ/

Noun

feoil f (genitive singular feola, nominative plural feolta)

1. flesh, meat

Declension

Declension of feoil (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative feoil feolta vocative a fheoil a fheolta genitive feola feolta dative feoil feolta forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fheoil na feolta genitive na feola na bhfeolta dative leis an bhfeoil don fheoil leis na feolta

Hyponyms

• bánbhia (“white meat”)

Derived terms

• ag ithe na feola fuaire (“backbiting”)
• ainfheoil (“proud flesh”)
• caoireoil (“mutton”)
• circeoil (“chicken”)
• dramhfheoil (“inferior meat, carrion”)
• feoil anachana (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoil bhán (“fat meat”)
• feoil bheo (“livestock”)
• feoil chait (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
• feoil chapaill (“fatty hydrocarbon found in bog”)
• feoil chapaill (“horsemeat”)
• feoil dhaonna (“human flesh”)
• feoil dhearg (“lean meat”)
• feoil éanlaithe (“flesh of fowl”)
• feoil easpach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoil fhola (“red meat”)
• feoil thubaiste (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoil thubaisteach (“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
• feoilfhagóid (“faggot”)
• feoiliteach (“carnivorous (of animal)”, adjective)
• feoiliteoir (“carnivore”)
• feoilmheall (“meatball”)
• feoilséanadh (“vegetarianism”)
• feoilséantach (“vegetarian”, adjective)
• feoilséantóir (“vegetarian”, noun)
• feoilsúiteach (“carnivorous (of plant)”, adjective)
• feolaire (“flesher, butcher”)
• feolaireacht (“butchery”)
• feolamán (“fat, flabby, person”)
• feolchar (“voracious”, adjective)
• feolmhach (“fleshmeat; raw flesh”)
• feolmhar (“fleshy; fat, flabby”, adjective)
• fiafheoil (“(adult) venison”)
• idir feoil is leathar (“under the skin”)
• ionga i bhfeoil (“ingrowing nail”)
• laofheoil (“veal”)
• mairteoil (“beef”)
• margadh feola (“meat market”)
• méithfheoil (“fat meat”)
• mionfheoil (“minced meat”)
• muiceoil (“pork”)
• oiseoil (“fawn meat, juvenile venison”)
• paiteoil (“underdone meat”)
• pióg fheola (“meat pie”)
• seirgeoil (“jerked meat”)
• tairteoil (“desiccated, meat”)
• truafheoil (“lean meat”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feoil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
feoil	fheoil	bhfeoil

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) “feoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “feoil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 310
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “feoil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “feoil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025