féoil

• féuil

Unknown. MacBain reconstructs a Proto-Celtic *weɸolis and associates it with Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “fat”), वपुस् (vápus, “body”);^[1] Pedersen connects it with Middle Breton guentl (“gout”), Breton gwentr, gwentl (“severe pain”), implying a Proto-Celtic *wentlis.^[2] Fleuriot expresses doubt in Pedersen's etymology.^[3]

• IPA^(key):

féoil f (genitive féola)

1. flesh
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 22^d7

     ho rudeda ind ḟéuil forsnaib cnamaib, cita·biat iarum in chnamai in fochaid

     when the flesh has melted away on the bones, then the bones feel the suffering

2. (often in the plural) meat
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97^d10

     Is peccad díabul lesom .i. fodord doïb di dommatu, ⁊ du·fúairthed ní leu fora sáith din main, ⁊ todlugud inna féulæ ɔ amairis nánda·tibérad Día doïb, ⁊ nach coimnacuir ⁊ issi dano insin ind frescissiu co fochaid.

     It is a double sin in his opinion, i.e. the murmuring by them of want, although there remained some of the manna with them upon their satiety, and demanding the meat with faithlessness that God would not give it to them, and that he could not; therefore that is the expectation with testing.

• Irish: feoil
• Manx: feill
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féoil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language