feis

Borrowed from Irish feis.

• IPA^(key): /fɛʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

feis (plural feiseanna)

1. (Ireland) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
2. (Ireland) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.

• Fèis, the Scottish equivalent, and eisteddfod, the Welsh equivalent.

• fise, seif, fies, EFIS, Seif, ISEF, EFIs, ISFE

From Old Irish fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).

• IPA^(key): /fʲɛʃ/

feis f (genitive singular feise, nominative plural feiseanna)

1. (literary)
   1. act of sleeping, of passing the night
   2. accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper
2. (literary)
   1. sleeping together, sexual intercourse
   2. espousal, marriage
3. festival

   Synonym: féile

   1. Irish language festival (with competitions)
4. (literature) feast tale

• Ard-Fheis (“national convention”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “feis”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “feis”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• fes, fiste

feis

1. simple past of fise

• IPA^(key):

feis

1. inflection of fess:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative dual
2. alternative form of fess (original dative used as nominative, which is very common in verbal nouns)

feis

1. third-person singular future absolute of fichid

From Old Irish fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).

• IPA^(key): /feʃ/

feis f (genitive singular feise)

1. sex, intercourse

• Not to be confused with fèis (“a festival”).

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “feis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan ‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

feis

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of far