< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fehu
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From early *péku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɸe.xu/
Noun
*fehu n
- livestock, cattle
- property, wealth
- (Runic alphabet) name of the F-rune (ᚠ)
Inflection
neuter u-stemDeclension of *fehu (neuter u-stem) | ||
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singular | ||
nominative | *fehu | |
vocative | *fehu | |
accusative | *fehu | |
genitive | *fehauz | |
dative | *fihiwi | |
instrumental | *fehū |
Derived terms
- *fehufrekaz
- *fehufangą
- *fehugernaz
- *fehuhūsą
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *fehu
- Old English: feoh, fioh, feh
- Middle English: feh, fe, fee (with Old French)
- English: fee
- Scots: fe, fee, fiel
- Middle English: feh, fe, fee (with Old French)
- 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
- German Low German: Veeh, Veh, Veih n (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)
- Middle Low German: vehe, veh, vê, vie
- Old Dutch: fē, fio, fiu
- Middle Dutch: vêe
- Dutch: vee
- Afrikaans: vee
- Negerhollands: vee
- Limburgish: vieë, vieëch
- Dutch: vee
- Middle Dutch: vêe
- Old High German: fihu
- Middle High German: vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vech, vie, vē
- Alemannic German: Vëh
- Swabian: Viech
- Bavarian: Viech
- Cimbrian: viighe, biighe
- East Central German:
- Upper Saxon: Viech
- German: Vieh; Viech (with distinction)
- Luxembourgish: Véi
- Rhine Franconian:
- Hessian: Veh, Veih, Vieh
- Palatine: Veh, Vieh, Viech
- Yiddish: פֿיך (fikh)
- Alemannic German: Vëh
- Middle High German: vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vech, vie, vē
- → 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
- French: fief
- Middle French: fief
- Old French: feffe, feoffe f
- Middle French: fieffe
- → Middle English: feffe, feoffe
- English: feoff
- ⇒ Medieval Latin: feudum, feodum (see there for further descendants)
- Old French: fief m (dated 13th-century)
- Old English: feoh, fioh, feh
- Old Norse: fé
- Icelandic: fé
- Faroese: fæ
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fe; (dialectal) fi
- Norwegian Bokmål: fe
- Old Swedish: fǣ
- Swedish: fä
- Danish: fæ
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō)