fæ
Faroese
/fɛaː/
noun
Definitions
- cattle, livestock
- riches, richness, property, goods, money
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse fé (wealth, livestock, property, money, cattle, sheep) derived from Proto-Germanic *fehu (livestock, cattle, sheep, wealth, owndom) derived from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (livestock, domestic animals, cattle).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peḱu-
Gloss
livestock, domestic animals, cattle
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
畜
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pecora Latin
- pecus Latin
- pecūlium Latin
- *peku- Proto-Indo-European
- *peḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *peḱu- Proto-Indo-European
- *péḱu Proto-Indo-European
- *fehu Proto-Germanic
- fä Swedish
- feoh Old English
- búfé Old Norse
- dilkfé Old Norse
- fé Old Norse
- félag Old Norse
- geldfé Old Norse
- kvikfé Old Norse
- danefæ Danish
- fæ Danish
- fælle Danish
- fælles Danish
- fællig Danish
- fjáður Icelandic
- fé Icelandic
- fihu Old High German
- ասր Old Armenian
- 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 Gothic
- *fehu gmw-pro
- fehu Old Saxon
- feu Old Saxon
- *fehu Frankish
- fia Old Frisian
- *počaw urj-fpr-pro