different between feis vs geis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish feis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• pl. IPA^(key): /f???n?/

Noun

feis (plural feiseanna)

1. (Ireland) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
2. (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)

1. (literary)
   1. act of sleeping, of passing the night
   2. accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper
2. (literary)
   1. sleeping together, sexual intercourse
   2. espousal, marriage
3. festival

   Synonym: féile

   1. Irish language festival (with competitions)
4. (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

1. 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)

1. 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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Etymology 1

Noun

geis

1. plural of gei

Etymology 2

From Irish geis.

Noun

geis (plural geises or geasa)

1. a solemn injunction

Anagrams

• IESG, Iges, egis, gise

Estonian

Noun

geis

1. inessive singular of gei

Irish

Alternative forms

• geas

Etymology

From Old Irish geis, from the same root as guidid (“prays”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

geis f (genitive singular geise, nominative plural geasa)

1. a solemn injunction, especially of a magical kind, the infringement of which led to misfortune or even death
2. a tabu, spell or prohibition

Declension

Quotations

• 1974, Gerard Stockman, The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo, Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, page 69:

  ná bain le geis agus ní bhainfidh geis leat

  Do not bother with superstitions and superstitions will not bother you.

Descendants

• ? English: geas

Noun

geis f sg

1. (archaic or dialectal) dative singular of geas

Mutation

References

• “geas” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "geis" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Occitan

Noun

geis m

1. plaster (substance)

   Synonym: gip

Derived terms

• engeissar

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

geis f

1. genitive singular of geas

Mutation