feolaire

Irish

Etymology

From feoil (“meat, flesh”) +‎ -aire.

Noun

feolaire m (genitive singular feolaire, nominative plural feolairí)

1. flesher, butcher

   Synonym: búistéir

Declension

Declension of feolaire

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative feolaire feolairí Vocative a fheolaire a fheolairí Genitive feolairí feolairí Dative feolaire feolairí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an feolaire na feolairí Genitive an fheolairí na bhfeolairí Dative leis an bhfeolaire don fheolaire leis na feolairí

Derived terms

• feolaireacht f (“butchery”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feolaire	fheolaire	bhfeolaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feolaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN