feòil

See also: feoil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish feóil. Cognate with Irish feoil, Manx feill.

Noun

feòil f (genitive singular feòla)

  1. flesh
  2. meat

Derived terms
  • ainfheòil (“proud flesh, corrupt flesh”)
  • buileann feòla (“meat loaf”)
  • circ-fheòil, circe-fheòil (“chicken”) (meat)
  • daimh-fheòil (“beef”)
  • féidh-fheoil (“venison”)
  • feòil-caorach, feòil-chaorach (“mutton”)
  • feòil-itheach (“carnivorous”, adjective)
  • feòil-itheadair m (“carnivore”)
  • feòil-laoigh (“veal”)
  • feòil-muice (“pork”)
  • feòil-uain (“lamb”) (meat)
  • feòlach m (“carnage, slaughter”)
  • feòladair m (“butcher, flesher”)
  • feòladaireachd f (“butchery”)
  • feòlan m (“proud flesh, flesh growing beyond the skin, excoriation”)
  • feòlmhach m (“flesh-meat”)
  • feòlmhor (“sensual, erotic; carnal, lustful; fleshy, fat; brutish, bestial”, adjective)
  • feòlmhorachd f (“lust, carnality, fleshiness, bestiality”)
  • mairtfheòil (“beef”)
  • margadh na feòla m (“meat market”)
  • muic-fheòil (“pork”)
  • muilt-fheòil (“mutton”)
  • seòmar-feòla m (“larder”)
  • sùgh feòla m (“gravy”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
feòilfheòil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “feóil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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