féasta

See also: feasta

Irish

Alternative forms

• féasda, feusda, feusta (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English feeste, feste, from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin fēstum (“holiday, festival, feast”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲiːa̯sˠt̪ˠə/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲeːsˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

féasta m (genitive singular féasta, nominative plural féastaí)

1. feast, banquet

   Synonyms: cóisir, fleá, coirm

Declension

Declension of féasta

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative féasta féastaí Vocative a fhéasta a fhéastaí Genitive féasta féastaí Dative féasta féastaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an féasta na féastaí Genitive an fhéasta na bhféastaí Dative leis an bhféasta don fhéasta leis na féastaí

Derived terms

• féastach (“festive”, adjective)
• féastaigh (“feast”, verb)
• féastathach (“merrymaker”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
féasta	fhéasta	bhféasta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “féasta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fésta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féasta”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 306
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féasta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 60