fèill

See also: feill and féill

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish féil (“feast-day, festival”)[1] (compare Irish féile, Manx feaill), from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”). Compare Irish féile and Manx feaill.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feːʎ/

Noun

fèill f (genitive singular fèille, plural fèillean or fèilltean)

  1. (dated) feast, festival
    a' cumail là féille ― observing or holding a festival or holiday
    féill an roid, féill-roid ― the autumnal equinox, rood-day
    Cùm an fhéill air an latha.
    Keep the festival on the right day.
    1. vigil of a festival
    2. banquet where the chief presided
    3. guest at such a banquet
  2. fair
  3. market, sale
  4. holiday
    làithean féill ― holidays, days of folly
  5. (business, economics) market, demand
    Chan eil fèill mhòr air.
    There isn't a great demand/market for it.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of fèill
radical lenition
fèill fhèill

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “fèill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
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