fé
Icelandic
/fjɛː/
noun
Definitions
- livestock; cattle, chiefly sheep
- assets
- money
- fehu; the first letter of the runic futhark alphabet
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse fé (wealth, livestock, property, money, cattle, sheep) inherited from Proto-Germanic *fehu (livestock, cattle, sheep, wealth, owndom) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (livestock, cattle, domestic animals).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*péḱu
Gloss
livestock, cattle, domestic animals
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
- fee English
- feeless English
- feepayer English
- feepaying English
- nonfee English
- pecu 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
- fee Middle English
- *féaðr Old Norse
- 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
- bú Icelandic
- búfé Icelandic
- dráttur Icelandic
- fjárdráttur Icelandic
- fjárhundur Icelandic
- fjáður Icelandic
- févíti Icelandic
- hundur Icelandic
- met Icelandic
- metfé Icelandic
- víti Icelandic
- fihu Old High German
- fæ Faroese
- Rëndvéi Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- Véi Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 Gothic
- *fehu gmw-pro
- *páću Proto-Indo-Iranian
- fehu Old Saxon
- feu Old Saxon
- *fehu Frankish
- мышы Bashkir
- fia Old Frisian