fä
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- creature, cattle
- A mindlessly behaving animal
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
- fee English
- feeless English
- feepayer English
- feepaying English
- nonfee English
- 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
- fjäder Swedish
- fjäderfä Swedish
- fjäderfäavel Swedish
- fot Swedish
- fäfot Swedish
- Romfeoh Old English
- feoh Old English
- feohbot Old English
- feohern Old English
- feohgift Old English
- landfeoh Old English
- wudufeoh Old English
- fe Middle English
- fee Middle 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
- liggendefæ Danish
- fieu Old French
- fjáður Icelandic
- fé Icelandic
- fihu Old High German
- ասր Old Armenian
- fæ Faroese
- vihe Middle High German
- Véi Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 Gothic
- *fehu gmw-pro
- fehu Old Saxon
- feu Old Saxon
- Vëh Alemannic German
- *fehu Frankish
- fia Old Frisian
- *počaw urj-fpr-pro