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feóil

feóil

Irish

Noun

feóil f

  1. Obsolete spelling of feoil

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feóil fheóil bhfeóil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • feúil

Noun

feóil f (genitive feóla)

  1. flesh
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 22d7
      ho rudeda ind feúil forsnaib cnamaib
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    • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 261
      carnae ... is brisc uair is bruithi, as is rigin intan is feoil.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. meat

Inflection

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Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
feóil ḟeóil feóil
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • feóil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.