feis

Borrowed from Irish feis.

• IPA^(key): /fɛʃ/
• pl. IPA^(key): /fɛʃənə/

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.

• EFIs, ISEF, fise, seif

From Old Irish feiss, 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) act of sleeping, of passing the night; accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper
2. (literary) sleeping together, sexual intercourse; espousal, marriage
3. . festival
   1. Irish language festival (with competitions)
4. (literature) feast tale

• (festival): féile

• Ard-Fheis (“national convention”)

• "feis" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “2 feis(s), fess” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• IPA^(key): /feʃ/

feis f (genitive singular feise)

1. sex, intercourse

• Not to be confused with fèis, a festival.