fee

See also fée, and Fee

English

Etymology

From Middle English fe, feh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“sheep, cattle, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *peku-, *peḱu- (“sheep”). Cognate with Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), German Vieh (“cattle, livestock”), Icelandic fé (“livestock, assets, money”), Latin pecū (“cattle”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fē IPA: /fiː/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: fi

Noun

fee (plural fees)

1. (obsolete) Cattle; livestock, especially considered as the basis of wealth.
2. (obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
3. (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
4. A monetary payment charged for professional services.
5. (law) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
6. (law) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.

Translations

monetary payment charged for professional services

Chinese: Mandarin: 費 (cmn), 费 (cmn) (fèi) Czech: poplatek m., honorář m. Danish: gebyr (da) n. Dutch: prijs (nl) m., honorarium (nl) n. Finnish: palkkio (fi) French: honoraires (fr) pl. German: Gebühr (de) f. Greek: αμοιβή (el) f. Greenlandic: akiliut (kl)

Italian: tassa (it) f., tariffa (it) f., quota (it) f., onorario (it) m., emolumento (it) m. Japanese: 料金 (ja) (りょうきん, ryōkin) Korean: 요금 (ko) (yogeum) Portuguese: taxa (pt) f. Russian: (royalty, honorarium) гонорар (ru) (gonorár) m., пошлина (ru) (póšlina) f., взнос (ru) (vznos) m., плата (ru) (pláta) f., сбор (ru) (sbor) m. Scottish Gaelic: tuarasdal (gd) m. Spanish: honorario (es) m. Swahili: karo (sw), ada (sw) Swedish: avgift (sv) c.

See also

• Fee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: servant · doctor · Michael · #996: fee · excellent · Peter · instant

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Afrikaans

Noun

fee (plural feë or feetjie, diminutive feetjies)

1. fairy, pixie

Derived terms

• feeagtig

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

fee f. (plural feeën, diminutive feetje)

1. fairy

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Luxembourgish

Verb

fee

1. second-person singular imperative of feeën

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Manx

Etymology 1

Verb

fee

1. to weave, knit
2. to plait, braid
3. to interlace, intertwine
4. to mat

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fee	ee	vee
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Noun

fee m.

1. Verbal noun of fee.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fee	ee	vee
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Noun

fee m.

1. genitive singular form of feeagh
2. Plural form of feeagh.
   • Ta fys ny fee echey.
     • He has the knowledge of the ravens.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fee	ee	vee
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /feː/

Etymology 1

Germanic; cognate with Dutch vee, German Fee and Icelandic fé

Noun

fee n.

1. livestock

Etymology 2

From French fée

Noun

fee c. (pl. feeën)

1. fairy