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See also: feóil and feòil

feoil f ‎(genitive singular feola, nominative plural feolta)

Declension of feoil

Third declension

Bare forms:

Terms derived from feoil

feoiliteach ‎(“carnivorous”, adjective) (of animal)
feoiliteoir ‎(“carnivore”)
feoil mhairt, mairteoil ‎(“beef”)
feoilmheall ‎(“meatball”)
feoilséanadh ‎(“vegetarianism”)
feoilséantach ‎(“vegetarian”, adjective)
feoilséantóir ‎(“vegetarian”, noun)
feoilsúiteach ‎(“carnivorous”) (of plant)
feoil thubaiste, feoil thubaisteach, feoil anachana, feoil easpach ‎(“meat of farm animal killed by mischance”)
feolaireacht ‎(“butchery”)
feolaire ‎(“flesher, butcher”)
feolamán ‎(“fat, flabby, person”)
feolchar ‎(“voracious”, adjective)
feolmhach ‎(“fleshmeat; raw flesh”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feoil	fheoil	bhfeoil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

"feoil" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“feoil” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 113.
E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal, page 16, § 32.