fel

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See also: fél, fêl, and fel-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch fel, from Middle Dutch fel, from Old French fel.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fel (attributive fel, comparative feller, superlative felste)

  1. ferocious, fierce
  2. bright (e.g. sunlight)

Adverb

fel

  1. fiercely, ferociously

Catalan

Etymology

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Noun

fel m (plural fels)

  1. gall

Further reading

Cornish

Noun

fel

  1. Mixed mutation of mel.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch fel, from Old French fel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛl/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: fel
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Adjective

fel (comparative feller, superlative felst)

  1. bright (e.g. sunlight)
  2. fierce

Inflection

Declension of fel
uninflected fel
inflected felle
comparative feller
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial fel feller het felst
het felste
indefinite m./f. sing. felle fellere felste
n. sing. fel feller felste
plural felle fellere felste
definite felle fellere felste
partitive fels fellers —

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: fel

Adverb

fel

  1. fiercely
    De Frisii waren een Germaans volk en net als verscheidene andere Germaanse volkeren wisten ze zich fel te verdedigen tegen de Romeinen[1] — The Frisii were a Germanic people and, just like various other Germanic peoples, they knew how to defend themselves fiercely against the Romans.

Descendants

Anagrams

Elfdalian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

fel

  1. probably, likely

Hungarian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adverb

fel (comparative feljebb)

  1. up

Derived terms

(Expressions):

See also

Latin

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”). The change from *ǵʰ- to f-instead of *h- De Vaan considers to be dialectal. Alternatively, the etymon *bʰel-, *bʰl̥H- (“yellow”).[1] Cognates include bilis, holus and helvus; Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”) and χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”); and English yellow and gold.

Pronunciation

Noun

fel n (genitive fellis); third declension

  1. gall bladder
  2. gall, bile
  3. poison
  4. bitterness, venom

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fel fella
Genitive fellis fellium
fellum
Dative fellī fellibus
Accusative fel fella
Ablative felle fellibus
Vocative fel fella

Descendants

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References

  1. ^ Template:R:DeVaan 2008
  • “fel”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fel.

Adjective

fel

  1. cruel, harsh
  2. evil
  3. terrible
  4. dangerous

Inflection

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Descendants

Further reading

Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *faluz, cognate with felon.

Adjective

fel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fele)

  1. evil
  2. vile; despicable
    • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
      "Fui!" fet Erec, "nains enuiieus!
      Trop es fel et contraliieus.["]
      "Flee" said Erec "pesky dwarf!
      You are too vile and maddening"

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (1. fel)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

fel

  1. Alternative form of fil

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fel ḟel fel
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fel, from Latin fel, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fel f (uncountable)

  1. sourness, acerbity, bitterness
    Synonym: azedume
  2. (figuratively) sorrow
    Synonym: amargura
  3. (medicine) gall; bile
    Synonyms: bile, bílis

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian -féle.

Pronunciation

Noun

fel n (plural feluri)

  1. sort, type, kind
    fel de fel de oameni — all kinds of people
    la fel ca tine — the same as you
  2. manner, style, way
    În ce fel? — In what way?
    În felul acesta. — In this way.
    Într-un fel e un lucru bun că a plecat. — In a way it's a good thing that he left.
    Nu e în felul lui să fie neprietenos. — It's not in his nature to be unkind.

Declension

Declension of fel
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) fel felul (niște) feluri felurile
genitive/dative (unui) fel felului (unor) feluri felurilor
vocative felule felurilor

Synonyms

Derived terms

Swedish

Etymology

See Norwegian feil and Danish fejl. Used in Swedish at least since 1527. For the adverb, the now obsolete form felt was the dominant written form until the mid 19th century.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fel

  1. wrong, incorrect, erroneous
    Fel svar ger inga poäng.
    A wrong answer gives no points.

Antonyms

Adverb

fel

  1. wrong, wrongly, incorrectly, erroneously
    Hon svarade fel på hälften av frågorna.
    She answered wrong on half of the questions.
    Planen slog fel.
    The plan failed.

Noun

fel n

  1. mistake
    Jag erkänner, jag gjorde fel.
    I admit, I made a mistake.
    Han har fel.
    He is wrong.
  2. error, fault, deviation (from the correct or normal)

Declension

Declension of fel 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fel felet fel felen
Genitive fels felets fels felens

Derived terms

This list includes words based on the adverb (felcitera (“to cite erroneously”)) as well as the noun (felsöka (“to search for errors”)).

References

Volapük

Pronunciation

Noun

fel (nominative plural fels)

  1. field (general)

Declension

declension of fel
singular plural
nominative fel fels
genitive fela felas
dative fele feles
accusative feli felis
vocative 1 o fel! o fels!
predicative 2 felu felus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Welsh

Etymology

Cognate with Breton evel.

Pronunciation

Preposition

fel

  1. as, like

Adverb

fel

  1. (colloquial) (South Wales) how

References

  1. ^ J. Morris Jones, A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative (Oxford 1913), § 51 vi.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

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Noun

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  1. rasp, file

Verb

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  1. to rasp, to file
    ja skull a hatt feld opp såga
    I should have filed the saw.
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