{"id":9113,"date":"2017-03-31T04:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T04:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2018-03-22T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:44:40","slug":"bia-le-beoir-aguisin-one-more-irish-phrase-for-a-beer-friendly-snack-food-cuid-part-2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/bia-le-beoir-aguisin-one-more-irish-phrase-for-a-beer-friendly-snack-food-cuid-part-2c\/","title":{"rendered":"Bia le Beoir (Aguis\u00edn): One More Irish Phrase for a Beer-friendly Snack Food, Cuid \/ Part 2C of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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C\u00e9n s\u00f3rt feola \u00ed sin i nd\u00e1ir\u00edre? Meas t\u00fa go bhfuil an fheoil sin blasta? R\u00e9amhtheachta\u00ed ag Spam, an ea?<\/em>
(grafaic: https:\/\/freevintageillustrations.com\/2016\/02\/28\/free-vintage-illustrations-for-st-patricks-day-corned-beef-cabbage-and-potatoes\/#jp-carousel-1178)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, we’ve gotten to the end of our “sraith taobh istigh de shraith<\/strong>.” \u00a0We started with the addition of “craiceann muiceola friochta<\/strong>” the list of “sneaiceanna le n-ithe le beoir<\/strong>.”\u00a0 That led to a discussion of various other types of meat (besides “muiceoil<\/strong>“) whose Irish names are compound words ending in “-fheoil<\/strong>” or “-eoil<\/strong>.”\u00a0 So today we’ll wrap up with “seirgeoil<\/strong>” and “tarbhfheoil<\/strong>” (bull beef), including a comparison with “mairteoil bheirithe”<\/strong> (bully beef), and we’ll finish up with “toirceoil<\/strong>” and a few miscellaneous terms.<\/p>\n

seirgeoil<\/strong>, jerky (searg<\/strong>, withered, shriveled + feoil<\/strong>, meat).\u00a0 While “seirgeoil<\/strong>” is a compound word (as with all the terms in this series), there is another way to combine the ideas of “dried” + “meat,” quite simply, feoil sheirgithe<\/strong>, but that, on its own, wouldn’t have made it into this list, which is limited to the compound words.\u00a0 Foirmeacha an fhocail: an tseirgeoil, seirgeola, na seirgeola<\/strong>.\u00a0 No plural.\u00a0 Presumably this could once have been written as “seirgfheoil<\/strong>,” but I don’t find any evidence of this spelling online.<\/p>\n

tarbhfheoil<\/strong>, bull beef (tarbh<\/strong>, bull + feoil<\/strong>, meat).\u00a0 This is meat from a “tarbh gan choilleadh<\/strong>,” euphemistically called, in English, “intact.”\u00a0 That’s as opposed to “feoil bod\u00f3ige<\/strong>” (lit. meat of a heifer), “laofheoil<\/strong>” (veal), and, hmm, is there a specific word for ox meat, as opposed to just the “damhtheanga<\/strong>” (ox tongue) or “damheireaball<\/strong>” (oxtail, as in “anraith damheireabaill”). \u00a0\u00a0Don’t worry, the “ox-eye” is a type of “n\u00f3in\u00edn<\/strong>” (daisy), not an actual “s\u00fail<\/strong>” (eye). \u00a0On a whim, I did try Googling some combinations of “damh<\/strong>“(ox) and “feoil<\/strong>” (fheoil, fheola, fheolta, eoil, eola, eola<\/strong>, plus lenition and eclipsis) but the closest I got was “damfool,” “damn fool,” and “dam fool.” Was that a message from Google?<\/p>\n

But wait! \u00a0Then I tried applying vowel harmony, and got a few hits from 18th-century dictionaries for “daimhfheoil<\/strong>,” defined as “beef.”\u00a0 So my hunch was right, that it could be a compound, but that word seems to have, um, gone the way of all flesh.<\/p>\n

Tarbhfheoil<\/strong> (bull beef) shouldn’t be confused with “bully beef”, sometimes just called “bully,” typically associated with soldiers’ rations and\/or school lunches.\u00a0 This “bully” comes from the French “bouilli<\/em>” (boiled).\u00a0 “Bully beef” goes by various names in both Irish and English.\u00a0 English terms include corned, tinned, canned, and boiled beef, and in schools, jokingly, “mystery meat”.\u00a0 It’s usually packed in cans with clear gelatin.\u00a0 In Irish, the more popular term seems to be “mairteoil st\u00e1naithe<\/strong>,” lit. “tinned beef,” but it may also be called “mairteoil bheirithe<\/strong>” (boiled beef) as we see in the one solitary hit for that term I found online: “Faoin mbliain 1850, tugadh isteach tithe c\u00f3caireachta agus bialanna nua, ina n-ullmha\u00edt\u00ed mairteoil bheirithe n\u00f3 anraith mairteola agus caife dh\u00e1 uair sa l\u00e1 do na saighdi\u00fair\u00ed<\/strong>.”(http:\/\/www.museum.ie\/NationalMuseumIreland\/media\/Guidebooks\/2_Decorative-Arts-History\/cb_guide_web_ir.pdf).\u00a0 If there are any specific distinctions between “bully beef” and “canned\/corned\/tinned\/boiled” beef, they’re a little beyond my culinary ken.\u00a0 But maybe if I get to visit the Spam Museum in Hormel, Minnesota, someday, I’ll find out more.\u00a0 At any rate, this doesn’t sound like what is meant in America by the “corned beef” found in Reuben sandwiches or the “corned beef” served in slices with cabbage. \u00a0As far as I know, this latter type of corned beef isn’t sold in cans.\u00a0 I would call it “saillte<\/strong>” or “leasaithe<\/strong>” in Irish. \u00a0But maybe it is just the packaging.\u00a0 Smaointe<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Foirmeacha an fhocail ‘tarbhfheoil’: an tarbhfheoil, tarbhfheola, na tarbhfheola<\/strong>.\u00a0 No plural.<\/p>\n

toirceoil<\/strong>, or more traditionally, toircfheoil<\/strong>, brawn, boar meat, or as it’s sometimes defined, boar’s flesh (torc<\/strong>, boar + feoil<\/strong>, meat).\u00a0 This “torc<\/strong>,” of course is a completely different word from “torc<\/strong>,” meaning “torque.”\u00a0 Although this isn’t a particularly popular food, as far as I know, I have occasionally seen it on menus.\u00a0 It’s interesting that although there are so many references to wild boar in early Celtic literature, the native population in Ireland has gone extinct. \u00a0There is, however, a small population today, partly of escapees from farms that become feral. \u00a0The animals, that is, not the farms! \u00a0I’ve just read that they had been hunted to extinction in England by the 17th century but that a small population is growing again there also, partly due to wild boar farming (as it’s called — but how can they be “wild” boar if they’re farmed?). \u00a0Again, there can be escapees that become feral. \u00a0Are these really the same as traditional wild boar. \u00a0And does anyone know a figure for Ireland or what the reaction is to them?\u00a0 Here are a couple of interesting links on the topic: http:\/\/www.biodiversityireland.ie\/wild-boar-hybridferal-pig\/ and http:\/\/invasivespeciesireland.com\/news\/wild-boar-statement\/<\/p>\n

Foirmeacha an fhocail “toirceoil”: an toirceoil, toirceola, na toirceola<\/strong>.\u00a0 No plural.<\/p>\n

Finally, there are a few related words that are not so much specific meats but categories:<\/p>\n

circeoil<\/strong>, poultry, which we saw previously as a word for “chicken” (the meat).\u00a0 There is also the word “sic\u00edn<\/strong>,” which can mean both the meat and the animal.\u00a0 Context tells us how to translate this word — but we don’t usually talk about “poultry burgers” or “poultry cordon bleu.” The more usual words for “poultry,” i.e. the birds themselves, are \u00a0“\u00e9anlaith chl\u00f3is<\/strong>,” also sometimes spelled “\u00e9anlaith cl\u00f3is<\/strong>,” lit. birds\/fowl of the enclosure\/farmyard, and “\u00e9anlaith t\u00edreachais<\/strong>,” lit. birds\/fowl of domesticity.<\/p>\n

\u00e9ineoil<\/strong>, yet a third word for “poultry,” this one based on “\u00e9an<\/strong>” (bird).<\/p>\n

As for the word “feoil<\/strong>” itself, it can also mean “flesh,” which could actually give us an additional slew of meanings, \u00a0including the charming “ionga na laidhre i bhfeoil<\/strong>,” lit. “[finger]nail in flesh,” that is an ingrown or ingrowing nail.\u00a0 But continuing with that set of meanings would, no doubt, extend this blog far beyond the usual length.\u00a0 So for now I’ll say, “Sl\u00e1n go ‘feoil'” — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naisc<\/strong><\/p>\n

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