Commento su I Samuele 1:9

Eating in Shilo. The 'ה' is not dotted and the 'א' is voweled with a short kametz and its [meaning is] 'after eating in Shilo and after drinking,'¹⁴Eili therefore suspected that she was drunk because prayer usually takes place before eating or drinking—Da’as Sofrim. and this expression is properly used both for masculine and feminine. After אָכְלָה is a gerund. It is constructed like ,¹⁵Vayikra 25:6.לְאָכְלָה an expression equivalent to an infinitive [i.e., לֶאֶכוֹל].

Channah rose to go to the House of the Lord.

Eating (Achlah): It is the infinitive with the addition of a hey; but the hey is not for the feminine, as it is not dotted (mapik). And likewise, drinking (shatah) is the infinitive. So its explanation is that they ate and they drank. But it is possible that Channah also ate. Even though it stated (I Shmuel 1:7), "and she wept and would not eat," it is possible that after her husband said to her, "But why don't you eat," and pleaded with her, she ate a little. And a master of homiletical teachings said (Ketuvot 65a), "'He drank (shatah),' but she did not drink (shatatah). But he was not exact.