fele
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-Germanic *felu (“very, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁u (“many”). Cognate with Scots fele (“many, much, great”), Dutch veel (“much, many”), German viel (“much, many”), Latin plūs (“more”), Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”). Related to full.
Adverb
[edit]fele
- (dialectal or obsolete) Greatly, much, very
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
- For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.
Adjective
[edit]fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Much; many.
- 1513, Gavin Douglas, Eneados:
- This cruel monstre, […] Infect with fell venoum;
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
- So fele shippes this yere there ware / That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare.
- So fele ships this year there were / that much loss for unfreight they bore.
- So fele shippes this yere there ware / That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare.
Derived terms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]fele
Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Postposition
[edit]fele
Etymology 2
[edit]From the fel- stem of fél (“half”) + -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix).
Adjective
[edit]fele (not comparable)
- half (of the)
- A fele gond az enyém. ― Half (of) the trouble is mine.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]fele
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of fél: its half, half of…
- A pénz fele az enyém. ― Half of the money is mine.
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | fele | — |
accusative | felét | — |
dative | felének | — |
instrumental | felével | — |
causal-final | feléért | — |
translative | felévé | — |
terminative | feléig | — |
essive-formal | feleként | — |
essive-modal | feléül | — |
inessive | felében | — |
superessive | felén | — |
adessive | felénél | — |
illative | felébe | — |
sublative | felére | — |
allative | feléhez | — |
elative | feléből | — |
delative | feléről | — |
ablative | felétől | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
feléé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
felééi | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- (noun sense; a derivative of fél (“its half”)): (2): fél in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (adjective): fele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (postposition; dialectal alternative form of felé (“towards him/her/it”)): (1): felé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfeː.le/, [ˈfeːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.le/, [ˈfɛːle]
Noun
[edit]fēle
References
[edit]- fele in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old English fela, felu, from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]fele
- Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.
- c. 1375, “Book II”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 5, verso, lines 240-242; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
- James off Dowglas þat wes ſyne / Þ[at] yheyt þan wes bot litill off my[ch]t / And oþir fele folk foꝛſye in fy[ch]t […]
- James of Douglas was next; / [he] was then only weak in power / and many other people, mighty in war […]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]fele
- Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.
Descendants
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fele
Descendants
[edit]Adverb
[edit]fele
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “fēle, indef. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “fēle, adv..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old English fǣle, from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fele (uncommon)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “fēle, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
[edit]A back-formation from felen (“to feel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fele (uncountable) (rare, Northern)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “fẹ̄le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]fele
- Alternative form of felawe
Etymology 5
[edit]Verb
[edit]fele
- Alternative form of felen (“to feel”)
Neapolitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *felem m or f, from Latin fel n.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fele m (plural [please provide])
References
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 140: “il fiele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “fèle”, in Schedario Napoletano
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Stainer.jpg/220px-Stainer.jpg)
a violin
Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse fiðla. Compare English fiddle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fele f or m (definite singular fela or felen, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)
- a violin
- a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument
Synonyms
[edit]- (violin): fiolin
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]“fele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fele f (definite singular fela, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)
- a violin
- a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument
Synonyms
[edit]- (violin): fiolin
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]“fele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
[edit]Verb
[edit]fele (relative)
- Alternative form of fil
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]fele
- inflection of felar:
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- nb:Musical instruments
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