# feoil
## Irish
### Alternative forms

* feóil (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /fʲoːlʲ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /fʲɔːlʲ/

### Noun

feoil f (genitive singular feola, nominative plural feolta)
* flesh, meat

#### 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

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

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 57, page 30
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 113
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 32, page 16

### 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