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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish féoil. Cognate with Irish feoil, Manx feill.
Pronunciation
Noun
feòil f (genitive singular feòla)
- flesh
- meat
Derived terms
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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feòil |
fheòil
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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
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “feòil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “feóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language