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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish féil (“feast-day, festival”)[1] (compare Irish féile, Manx feaill), from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fèill f (genitive singular fèille, plural fèillean or fèilltean)
- (dated) feast, festival
- a' cumail là féille ― observing or holding a festival or holiday
- féill an roid, féill-roid ― the autumnal equinox, rood-day
Cùm an fhéill air an latha.- Keep the festival on the right day.
- vigil of a festival
- banquet where the chief presided
- guest at such a banquet
- fair
- market, sale
- holiday
- làithean féill ― holidays, days of folly
- (business, economics) market, demand
Chan eil fèill mhòr air.- There isn't a great demand/market for it.
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Mutation
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “fèill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC