feoil

See also: feóil and feòil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

feoil f (genitive singular feola, nominative plural feolta)

  1. flesh, meat

Declension

Derived terms

  • ag ithe na feola fuaire (backbiting, slandering, people)
  • ainfheoil (proud flesh)
  • caoireoil (mutton)
  • circeoil (chicken)
  • dramhfheoil (inferior meat, carrion)
  • feoil bhán (fat meat)
  • feoil bheo (livestock)
  • feoil chait, feoil chapaill (fatty hydrocarbon found in bog)
  • feoil chapaill (horsemeat)
  • feoil dhaonna (human flesh)
  • feoil dhearg, truafheoil (lean meat)
  • feoil éanlaithe (flesh of fowl)
  • feoilfhagóid (faggot)
  • feoil fhola (red meat)
  • feoiliteach (carnivorous, adjective) (of animal)
  • feoiliteoir (carnivore)
  • feoil mhairt, mairteoil (beef)
  • feoilmheall (meatball)
  • feoilséanadh (vegetarianism)
  • feoilséantach (vegetarian, adjective)
  • feoilséantóir (vegetarian, noun)
  • feoilsúiteach (carnivorous, adjective) (of plant)
  • feoil thubaiste, feoil thubaisteach, feoil anachana, feoil easpach (meat of farm animal killed by mischance)
  • 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)
  • 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 (dried-up, desiccated, meat; lean meat)

See also

Mutation

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.

Further reading

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