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)

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

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