# feis
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Irish feis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛʃ/
* Rhymes: -ɛʃ

### Noun

feis (plural feiseanna)
* (Ireland) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
* (Ireland) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.

### See also

* Fèis, the Scottish equivalent, and eisteddfod, the Welsh equivalent.

### Anagrams

* fise, seif, fies, EFIS, Seif, ISEF, EFIs, ISFE

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fʲɛʃ/

### Noun

feis f (genitive singular feise, nominative plural feiseanna)
* (literary)
** act of sleeping, of passing the night
** accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper
* (literary)
** sleeping together, sexual intercourse
** espousal, marriage
* festival
    Synonym: féile
** Irish language festival (with competitions)
* (literature) feast tale

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
feis
feiseanna
vocative
a fheis
a fheiseanna
genitive
feise
feiseanna
dative
feis
feiseanna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an fheis
na feiseanna
genitive
na feise
na bhfeiseanna
dative
leis an bhfeis don fheis
leis na feiseanna :

#### Derived terms

* Ard-Fheis (“national convention”)

### Mutation

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

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “feis”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “feis”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* fes, fiste

### Verb

feis
* simple past of fise

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɸʲesʲ]

### Noun

feis f
* inflection of fess:
** accusative/dative singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative dual
* Alternative form of fess (original dative used as nominative, which is very common in verbal nouns)

### Verb

feis
* third-person singular future absolute of fichid

### Mutation

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

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /feʃ/

### Noun

feis f (genitive singular feise)
* sex, intercourse

#### Usage notes

* Not to be confused with fèis (“a festival”).

### Mutation

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

### References

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “feis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Spanish
### Verb

feis
* second-person plural present subjunctive of far