- feis
- noun /fɛʃ,fɛʃənə/a) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.b) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.
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Feis — A Feis (Irish Gaelic: IPA2|fɛʃ, roughly fesh ) or Fèis (Scots Gaelic: IPA| [faɪʃ] , roughly fyesh ) is a traditional Gaelic arts and culture festival. The plural forms are feiseanna (Irish Gaelic: IPA| [fɛʃənæ] fesh a nae ) and fèisean (Scots… … Wikipedia
Feis — Ein Feis (gesprochen „Fäsch“; Plural „Feisanna“) ist ein irisches Festival. Dieses hat einen wettkampfartigen Charakter und wird in mehreren Disziplinen ausgetragen. Bestandteile sind Austragungen in den Disziplinen Tanz (vor allem Irish Dance),… … Deutsch Wikipedia
feis — /fɛʃ/ (say fesh) noun (plural feisanna /fɛˈʃanə/ (say fe shahnuh)) a traditional Gaelic festival of music and dancing. {Irish feis, fess meeting, assembly} …
FEIS, HERBERT — (1893–1972), U.S. economic historian. Feis, who was born in New York City, was an instructor in economics at Harvard (1920–21), associate professor at the University of Kansas (1922–25), and professor and head of the department of economics at… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Fèis Bharraigh — begun in 1981 with the mission to promote, encourage, foster and develop the practice and study of the Scottish Gaelic language, literature, music, drama and culture on the islands of Barra and Vatersay. The Fèis movement came about when a group… … Wikipedia
Feis Ceoil — (English: Festival of Music ) is an annual Irish cultural festival of music and dance. It was first organized in 1897 by Dr. Annie Patterson and consisted of competitions for performance and composition and was supported by all musicians of the… … Wikipedia
Feis — ober und mitteldeutsche Übernamen zu mhd. veiz(e), veizt »beleibt, feist, fett«. Ulr. der Faist ist a. 1340 in Regensburg bezeugt … Wörterbuch der deutschen familiennamen
FEIS — abbr. Fellow, Educational Institute of Scotland … Dictionary of abbreviations
