fen
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), from Proto-Germanic *fanją (compare West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen), from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). Compare Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).
Noun[edit]
fen (plural fens)
- A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
- 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807):
- Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
- England hath need of thee: she is a fen
- Of stagnant waters […]
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery:
- In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; [...]
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- He was freezing to death in the flat mud of the Suffolk fens, too proud to go home without a catch.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen (plural fens)
Translations[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.
Noun[edit]
fen pl (normally plural, singular fan)
- (dated, fandom slang) Fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
- 1951 May 21, Sargeant, Winthrop, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life[1], volume 30, number 21, page 127:
- Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen. […] But the Europeans could be counted on to take the long view, and many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.
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Etymology 4[edit]
Compare fend.
Interjection[edit]
fen
- (obsolete) Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.
Etymology 5[edit]
From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.
Noun[edit]
fen (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
- 1769, The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry[3], second edition, page 339:
- […] whereby the ſtagnating ſap corrupts, and breeds mouldy fen, which often ſpoils whole tracts of, till then, flouriſhing hop-grounds.
- 1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary[4], Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:
- Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.
- 1848, John Marius Wilson, editor, The Rural Cyclopedia[5], volume 2, A. Fullarton, page 698:
- The mould, the fen, or the mouldy-fen, prevails more on hop-grounds which are low, moist, and sheltered, than on such as are high, dry, and open […]
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Verb[edit]
fen
- third-person singular present indicative form of fendre
- second-person singular imperative form of fendre
Chuukese[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fen
Synonyms[edit]
Adverb[edit]
fen
- past tense marker for verbs
- already
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen m
- fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan).
- 1962, Časopis Národního muzea, volume 131, page 165:
- Čínská poštovní správa v roce 1961 vydala ke Dni armády, tj. k 1. srpnu 1961 dvě známky, a to v hodnotách 8 fenů a 10 fenů […]
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Declension[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen
Further reading[edit]
- fen in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Dalmatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin fīnitus. Compare Italian fino.
Adjective[edit]
fen (feminine faina)
Faroese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanją.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen n (genitive singular fens, plural fen)
Declension[edit]
Declension of fen | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fen | fenið | fen | fenini |
accusative | fen | fenið | fen | fenini |
dative | feni | feninum | fenum | fenunum |
genitive | fens | fensins | fena | fenanna |
Derived terms[edit]
Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen m (plural fens)
Related terms[edit]
Hungarian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pänɜ (“grindstone; grind”).[1]
Verb[edit]
fen
Conjugation[edit]
1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | fenek | fensz | fen | fenünk | fentek | fennek |
Def. | fenem | fened | feni | fenjük | fenitek | fenik | ||
2nd-p. o. | fenlek | ― | ||||||
Past | Indef. | fentem | fentél | fent | fentünk | fentetek | fentek | |
Def. | fentem | fented | fente | fentük | fentétek | fenték | ||
2nd-p. o. | fentelek | ― | ||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | fennék | fennél | fenne | fennénk | fennétek | fennének |
Def. | fenném | fennéd | fenné | fennénk | fennétek | fennék | ||
2nd-p. o. | fennélek | ― | ||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | fenjek | fenj or fenjél |
fenjen | fenjünk | fenjetek | fenjenek |
Def. | fenjem | fend or fenjed |
fenje | fenjük | fenjétek | fenjék | ||
2nd-p. o. | fenjelek | ― | ||||||
Infinitive | fenni | fennem | fenned | fennie | fennünk | fennetek | fenniük | |
Other nonfinite verb forms |
Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
fenés | fenő | fent | fenendő | fenve | fenhet |
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen (plural fenek)
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | fen | fenek |
accusative | fent | feneket |
dative | fennek | feneknek |
instrumental | fennel | fenekkel |
causal-final | fenért | fenekért |
translative | fenné | fenekké |
terminative | fenig | fenekig |
essive-formal | fenként | fenekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | fenben | fenekben |
superessive | fenen | feneken |
adessive | fennél | feneknél |
illative | fenbe | fenekbe |
sublative | fenre | fenekre |
allative | fenhez | fenekhez |
elative | fenből | fenekből |
delative | fenről | fenekről |
ablative | fentől | fenektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
fené | feneké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
fenéi | fenekéi |
Possessive forms of fen | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | fenem | fenjeim |
2nd person sing. | fened | fenjeid |
3rd person sing. | fenje | fenjei |
1st person plural | fenünk | fenjeink |
2nd person plural | fenetek | fenjeitek |
3rd person plural | fenjük | fenjeik |
References[edit]
- ^ Entry #728 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary. Internet Archive
Further reading[edit]
- (to whet): fen in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanją.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen n (genitive singular fens, nominative plural fen)
Declension[edit]
Istriot[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
fen
- Nonstandard spelling of fēn.
- Nonstandard spelling of fén.
- Nonstandard spelling of fěn.
- Nonstandard spelling of fèn.
Usage notes[edit]
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English fenn; from Proto-Germanic *fanją. The "dung" sense is influenced by Old French fien.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen (plural fennes)
Declension[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “fen, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “fen, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *fanją.
Noun[edit]
fen n (genitive fens, plural fen)
Declension[edit]
References[edit]
- fen in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fȇn m (Cyrillic spelling фе̑н)
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Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
fen
- definite singular of fe
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic فَنّ (fann).
Noun[edit]
fen (definite accusative fenni, plural fenler)
Declension[edit]
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | fen | |
Definite accusative | fenni | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | fen | fenler |
Definite accusative | fenni | fenleri |
Dative | fenne | fenlere |
Locative | fende | fenlerde |
Ablative | fenden | fenlerden |
Genitive | fennin | fenlerin |
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- en:Fandom
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