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fees
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?z/
- Rhymes: -i?z
Noun
fees
- plural of fee
Verb
fees
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fee
Anagrams
- EFEs
Afrikaans
Noun
fees (plural feeste, diminutive fesie)
- party; social gathering
- festival; fiesta; fete
- feast; a large meal or dinner party
- feast; something delightful
Synonyms
- (party): jol, partytjie
- (feast): feesmaal
- (something delightful): jol
Verb
fees (present fees, present participle feestende, past participle gefees)
- (uncommon, intransitive) to fete; to partake in a festival or feast
Synonyms
- feesvier
Luxembourgish
Verb
fees
- second-person singular present indicative of feeën
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feis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish feis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??/
- pl. IPA(key): /f???n?/
Noun
feis (plural feiseanna)
- (Ireland) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
- (Ireland) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.
See also
- Fèis, the Scottish equivalent, and eisteddfod, the Welsh equivalent.
Anagrams
- EFIs, ISEF, fise, seif
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes- (“to reside”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f???/
Noun
feis f (genitive singular feise, nominative plural feiseanna)
- (literary)
- act of sleeping, of passing the night
- accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper
- (literary)
- sleeping together, sexual intercourse
- espousal, marriage
- festival
- Synonym: féile
- Irish language festival (with competitions)
- (literature) feast tale
Declension
Derived terms
- Ard-Fheis (“national convention”)
Mutation
References
- "feis" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “feis” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “feis” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- fes, fiste
Verb
feis
- simple past of fise
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish feiss, fess, verbal noun of foïd (“to spend the night”), from Proto-Celtic *woseti, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes- (“to reside”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?/
Noun
feis f (genitive singular feise)
- sex, intercourse
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with fèis (“a festival”).
Mutation
References
- “feis” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 feis(s), fess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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