Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fehu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fehu.

Noun

*fehu n

1. livestock

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fehu
Genitive	*fehō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fehu	—
Accusative	*fehu	—
Genitive	*fehō	—
Dative	*fihiwi, *fehō	—
Instrumental	*fehu	—

Descendants

• Old English: feoh, fioh, feh
  • Middle English: feh, fe, fee (with Old French)
    • English: fee
    • Scots: fe, fee, fiel
• Old Frisian: fia
  • Saterland Frisian: Fäi
  • West Frisian: fee
• Old Saxon: fehu, feho, feu
  • Middle Low German: vehe, veh, vê, vie
    • German Low German: Veeh, Veh, Veih n (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)
      • Plautdietsch: Fee
• Old Dutch: fē, fio, fiu
  • Middle Dutch: vêe
    • Dutch: vee
      • Afrikaans: vee
      • Negerhollands: vee
    • Limburgish: vieë, vieëch
• Old High German: fihu
  • Middle High German: vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vëch, vie, vē
    • Alemannic German: Vëh

      Swabian: Viech

    • Bavarian: Viech

      Cimbrian: viighe, biighe (Mezzaselva)

    • East Central German:

      Upper Saxon German: Viech

    • German: Vieh; Viech (with distinction)
    • Luxembourgish: Véi
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Hessian: Veh, Veih, Vieh

      Palatine: Veh, Vieh, Viech

    • Vilamovian: fi, fī, fii, fiih
    • Yiddish: פֿיך (fikh)
• → Vulgar Latin: *feus
  • Old French: fieu (dated 11th-century) (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: feu
    • Catalan: feu
    • Occitan: fèu
  • Medieval Latin: fevum (dated 899, La Garde-Freinet, France)
    • Old French: fief m (dated 13th-century)
      • Middle French: fief
        • French: fief
          • → Romanian: fief
        • → English: fief
    • Old French: feffe, feoffe f
      • Middle French: fieffe
      • → Middle English: feffe, feoffe
        • English: feoff
    • ⇒ Medieval Latin: feudum, feodum (see there for further descendants)