- feabhas
- feabhas, feobhasgoodness, "betterness", Irish feabhus, Old Irish febas, superiority, feib, distincion, *visus, g. vesv-iás (Thurneysen, Zeit.$$+28 149, and Brug.), from vesu- or vesv-, as in fiù, q.v. Stokes doubtfully compares Latin vigeo, English vigour (Bez. Beit.$$+19 75).
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.