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fele

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See also: felé, -féle, felë, fêle, and fêlé

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, 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, few.

Adverb

fele

  1. (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

fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)

  1. (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.

Derived terms

Pronoun

fele

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) many (of).

Anagrams

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛlɛ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: fe‧le
  • Rhymes: -lɛ

Etymology 1

Postposition

fele

  1. (folksy) alternative form of felé (“toward(s), around”)

Etymology 2

From the fel- stem of fél (“half”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix).

Adjective

fele (not comparable)

  1. half (of the)
    A fele gond az enyém. ― Half (of) the trouble is mine.
Derived terms
  • felerészben

Noun

fele

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fél: its half, half of…
    A pénz fele az enyém. ― Half of the money is mine.
Declension
More information singular, plural ...
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions

Further reading

  • (noun sense; a derivative of fél (“its half”)): (2): fél in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • (adjective): fele in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • (postposition; dialectal alternative form of felé (“towards him/her/it”)): (1): felé in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

fēle

  1. ablative singular of fēlēs

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

    Inherited from Old English fela, felu, from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    Determiner

    fele

    1. 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)‎, 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
    Descendants
    • English: fele (obsolete, dialectal)
    • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

    Pronoun

    fele

    1. Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.
    Descendants
    • English: fele (obsolete, dialectal)
    • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

    Adjective

    fele

    1. great, large, extreme
    2. (rare) numerous, manifold
    Descendants
    • English: fele (obsolete)
    • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

    Adverb

    fele

    1. In a large amount or magnitude; much.
    2. Very; to an extreme degree.
    Descendants
    • English: fele (obsolete)
    • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

    References

    Etymology 2

      Inherited from Old English fǣle, from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz.

      Alternative forms

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

      fele (uncommon)

      1. good, excellent
      Descendants

      References

      Etymology 3

        A back-formation from felen (“to feel”).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        fele (uncountable) (rare, Northern)

        1. The sense of touch; the capacity to feel.
        2. (by extension) Awareness, perception.
        Descendants

        References

        Etymology 4

        Noun

        fele

        1. alternative form of felawe

        Etymology 5

        Verb

        fele

        1. alternative form of felen (“to feel”)
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        Neapolitan

        Etymology

        From Vulgar Latin *felem m or f, from Latin fel n.

        Pronunciation

        • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈfɛːlə]
        • (Castelmezzano) IPA(key): [ˈfeːlə]

        Noun

        fele m (plural [please provide])

        1. bile

        References

        • 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
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        Norwegian Bokmål

        Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
        Wikipedia nb

        Etymology

        From Old Norse fiðla. Compare English fiddle.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

        Noun

        fele f or m (definite singular fela or felen, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

        1. a violin
        2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

        Synonyms

        Derived terms

        References

        “fele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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        Norwegian Nynorsk

        Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
        Wikipedia nn

        Etymology

        From Old Norse fiðla.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

        Noun

        fele f (definite singular fela, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

        1. a violin
        2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

        Synonyms

        Derived terms

        References

        “fele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

        Old English

        Pronunciation

        Verb

        fēle

        1. inflection of fēlan:
          1. first-person singular present indicative
          2. singular present subjunctive

        Old Irish

        Verb

        fele (relative)

        1. alternative form of fil

        Spanish

        Verb

        fele

        1. inflection of felar:
          1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
          2. third-person singular imperative

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