feaill
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Manx
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish féil (compare Irish féile, Scottish Gaelic fèill), from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]feaill f (genitive singular feailley, plural feaillyn)
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
feaill | eaill | veaill |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language