féile

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Irish

Pronunciation

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)

  1. (Christianity) feast, feast day
  2. festival
    Synonym: feis
  3. hospitality
    Synonyms: aíocht, fáilte, flaithiúlacht
Declension
Declension of féile

Fourth 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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

féile f (genitive singular féile)

  1. generosity, hospitality
Declension
Declension of féile

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

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

  1. inflection of fial:
    1. feminine genitive singular
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féile fhéile bhféile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 318, page 111
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féil ‘festival’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ 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

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *wēliyā (“modesty”), abstract noun from *wēlos (“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)

  1. modesty, generosity
Declension
Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative féileL — —
Vocative féileL — —
Accusative féiliN — —
Genitive féile — —
Dative féiliL — —
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

  1. genitive singular of féil

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
féile ḟéile féile
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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