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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish félire, from féil (“feast day”), from Latin vigilia.
Pronunciation
Noun
féilire m (genitive singular féilire, nominative plural féilirí)
- calendar
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| féilire
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fhéilire
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bhféilire
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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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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “félire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féilire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 308
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féilire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN