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Breton

Noun

feder

  1. aspirate mutation of peder

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese feder, from Latin fetēre. Cognate with Portuguese feder, Spanish heder, and Sicilian fètiri.

Pronunciation

Verb

feder (first-person singular present fedo, first-person singular preterite fedín, past participle fedido)
feder (first-person singular present fedo, first-person singular preterite fedim or fedi, past participle fedido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. to stink, reek
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 209:
      nẽgũa cousa do mũdo que viuese, nẽ viua fosse, nẽ peyxe, nẽ ave, nẽ al, nõse cria, nẽse pode aly criar, et esto por duas rrazões: aprimeyra por la terra quee queymada et morta, asegunda por la agoa quee manyna et caẽte, et fede
      nothing in the world that is or was alive, fish, bird, nothing, grow or can be raised there [Dead Sea]; and this is because of two reasons: the first, because the earth is burnt and dead, and the second, because the water is sterile and warm, and stinks

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Middle English

Noun

feder (plural feders or federes)

  1. alternative form of fader

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

feder m

  1. (non-standard since 1938) indefinite plural of far

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

feder m

  1. alternative form of fæder

Old Frisian

Portuguese

Romani

Serbo-Croatian

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