# féile
## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfʲeːlʲə/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish féil (“festival, feast day”) (compare Scottish Gaelic fèill), from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).

#### Noun

féile f (genitive singular féile, nominative plural féilte)
* (Christianity) feast, feast day
* festival
    Synonym: feis
* hospitality
    Synonyms: aíocht, fáilte, flaithiúlacht

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
féile
féilte
vocative
a fhéile
a fhéilte
genitive
féile
féilte
dative
féile
féilte
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an fhéile
na féilte
genitive
na féile
na bhféilte
dative
leis an bhféile don fhéile
leis na féilte :

##### Derived terms

* Féile Satairn
* lá féile / Lá Fhéile
* Oíche Fhéile Eoin
* tine Fhéile Eoin (“Saint John's Eve bonfire”)

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish féile (“modesty, generosity”), from Proto-Celtic *weiliyā (“modesty”). By surface analysis, fial +‎ -e. Cognate with Welsh gwyledd.

#### Noun

féile f (genitive singular féile)
* generosity, hospitality

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
féile
vocative
a fhéile
genitive
féile
dative
féile
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an fhéile
genitive
na féile
dative
leis an bhféile don fhéile :

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

féile
* inflection of fial:
** feminine genitive singular
** comparative degree

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 318, page 111
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féil ‘festival’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féle ‘modesty, generosity’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féil ‘vigil’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 307
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féile ‘generosity’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 308
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “féile”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “féile”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɸʲeːlʲe]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *weiliyā (“modesty”), abstract noun from *weilos (“modest”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“turn”), which could be related to Latin vīlis (“cheap, abundant”). By surface analysis, fíal +‎ -e. Cognate with Welsh gwyledd.

#### Noun

féile f (genitive féili, no plural)
* modesty, generosity

##### Declension

Feminine iā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | féile$^L$ | — | — |
| Vocative | féile$^L$ | — | — |
| Accusative | féili$^N$ | — | — |
| Genitive | féile | — | — |
| Dative | féili$^L$ | — | — |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

féile f
* genitive singular of féil

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wēliyo/ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 409–10