felynge

Middle English

Alternative forms

• felunge, fielinge, velinge

Etymology

felen +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeːlinɡ/

Noun

felynge (plural felynges)

1. feeling
   • c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:

     Al is ylyche goode to me / Ioy or sorowe wherso hyt be / For I haue felynge in no thynge / But as it were a mased thynge / Alway in poynt to falle a down

     Everything is equally good to me— / Joy or sorrow, however it might be— / For I feel nothing about anything (literally, “I have feeling in nothing”), / But am like some dazed thing, / Always on the brink of falling down.

Descendants

• English: feeling
• Yola: veeleen, feeleen

References

• “fẹ̄ling(e, ger.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.