bigil

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bigil

1. skin
2. bark (of a tree)

• bhigil (as radical form)^[1]
• fighil^[2]
• uiccil, uigil, vigil (obsolete)^[3]

From English vigil, from Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of feighil.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪɟɪlʲ/^[4]

bigil f (genitive singular bigile, nominative plural bigilí)

1. (religion) vigil (eve of a religious festival)
2. (Roman Catholicism) abstinence (from certain foods on days of penitential observance)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bigil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bigil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN