feden

Galician

Verb

feden

1. third-person plural present indicative of feder

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fedenn, fede, feede, ffede, fiede, veden

Etymology

From Old English fēdan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeːdən/

Verb

feden (third-person singular simple present fedeth, present participle fedynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative fedde, past participle fed)

1. to provide for; to maintain (oneself or others):
   • c. 1390, “Merci passeþ. alle þinge.”, in Sowlehele (Vernon Lyrics, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎, Worcestershire, folio 407, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2019 January 10:

     Me hungred. þou woldeſt not me fede. / Ne neu᷑ my furſt. ne woldeſtou ſlake

     [When] I felt hungry, you wouldn't feed me. / Neither would you ever quench my thirst.

   1. to feed (supply with nourishment)
   2. to raise; to support young
   3. to satisfy or comfort (spiritually, emotionally)
2. to provide (someone) with a (positive) emotion
3. to feed (consume nourishment)
4. to fatten (to make fat)
5. (rare) to supply (a fire)
6. (rare) to mislead; to lead astray

Conjugation

Conjugation of feden (weak in -de)

infinitive	(to) feden, fede
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	fede	fedde
2nd-person singular	fedest	feddest
3rd-person singular	fedeth	fedde
subjunctive singular	fede
imperative singular		—
plural1	feden, fede	fedden, fedde
imperative plural	fedeth, fede	—
participles	fedynge, fedende	fed, yfed

¹ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: feed
• Scots: fede, feid

References

• “feden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.