"fehu" meaning in Proto-Germanic

See fehu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɸe.xu/ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], fehu [nominative, singular], fehu [singular, vocative], fehu [accusative, singular], fehauz [genitive, singular], fehiwi [dative, singular], fehū [instrumental, singular]
Etymology: From early *péku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu. Etymology templates: {{root|gem-pro|ine-pro|*peḱ-|id=livestock}}, {{inh|gem-pro|ine-pro|*péḱu}} Proto-Indo-European *péḱu Inflection templates: {{gem-decl-noun|nopl=1}}
  1. livestock, cattle Tags: neuter, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-fehu-gem-pro-noun-ucW6kx2l
  2. property, wealth Tags: neuter, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-fehu-gem-pro-noun-WKy3hTvX
  3. (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᚠ (f) Tags: neuter, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-fehu-gem-pro-noun-KHXXTHmm Categories (other): Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 8 18 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fehufrekaz, fehufangą, fehugernaz, fehuhūsą
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fehufrekaz"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fehufangą"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fehugernaz"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fehuhūsą"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*fehu"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *fehu\nOld English: feoh, fioh, feh\nMiddle English: feh, fe, fee (with Old French)\nEnglish: fee\nScots: fe, fee, fiel\nOld Frisian: fia\nSaterland Frisian: Fäi\nWest Frisian: fee\nOld Saxon: fehu, feho, feu\nMiddle Low German: vehe, veh, vê, vie\nGerman Low German: Veeh, Veh, Veih n (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)\nPlautdietsch: Fee\nOld Dutch: fē, fio, fiu\nMiddle Dutch: vêe\nDutch: vee\nAfrikaans: vee\nNegerhollands: vee\nLimburgish: vieë, vieëch\nOld High German: fihu\nMiddle High German: vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vech, vie, vē\nAlemannic German: Vëh\nSwabian: Viech\nBavarian: Viech\nCimbrian: viighe, biighe (Mezzaselva)\nEast Central German:\nUpper Saxon German: Viech\nGerman: Vieh; Viech (with distinction)\nLuxembourgish: Véi\nRhine Franconian:\nHessian: Veh, Veih, Vieh\nPalatine: Veh, Vieh, Viech\nYiddish: פֿיך (fikh)\n→ Vulgar Latin: *feus\nOld French: fieu (dated 11th-century) (see there for further descendants)\nOld Occitan: feu\nCatalan: feu\nOccitan: fèu\nMedieval Latin: fevum (dated 899, La Garde-Freinet, France)\nOld French: fief m (dated 13th-century)\nMiddle French: fief\nFrench: fief\n→ Romanian: fief\n→ English: fief\nOld French: feffe, feoffe f\nMiddle French: fieffe\n→ Middle English: feffe, feoffe\nEnglish: feoff\n⇒ Medieval Latin: feudum, feodum (see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *fehu\nOld English: feoh, fioh, feh\nMiddle English: feh, fe, fee (with Old French)\nEnglish: fee\nScots: fe, fee, fiel\nOld Frisian: fia\nSaterland Frisian: Fäi\nWest Frisian: fee\nOld Saxon: fehu, feho, feu\nMiddle Low German: vehe, veh, vê, vie\nGerman Low German: Veeh, Veh, Veih n (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)\nPlautdietsch: Fee\nOld Dutch: fē, fio, fiu\nMiddle Dutch: vêe\nDutch: vee\nAfrikaans: vee\nNegerhollands: vee\nLimburgish: vieë, vieëch\nOld High German: fihu\nMiddle High German: vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vech, vie, vē\nAlemannic German: Vëh\nSwabian: Viech\nBavarian: Viech\nCimbrian: viighe, biighe (Mezzaselva)\nEast Central German:\nUpper Saxon German: Viech\nGerman: Vieh; Viech (with distinction)\nLuxembourgish: Véi\nRhine Franconian:\nHessian: Veh, Veih, Vieh\nPalatine: Veh, Vieh, Viech\nYiddish: פֿיך (fikh)\n→ Vulgar Latin: *feus\nOld French: fieu (dated 11th-century) (see there for further descendants)\nOld Occitan: feu\nCatalan: feu\nOccitan: fèu\nMedieval Latin: fevum (dated 899, La Garde-Freinet, France)\nOld French: fief m (dated 13th-century)\nMiddle French: fief\nFrench: fief\n→ Romanian: fief\n→ English: fief\nOld French: feffe, feoffe f\nMiddle French: fieffe\n→ Middle English: feffe, feoffe\nEnglish: feoff\n⇒ Medieval Latin: feudum, feodum (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmq-pro",
            "2": "*ᚠᛖᚺᚢ",
            "3": "*ᚠᛖᚺ",
            "ts1": "fehu, fēhu",
            "ts2": "fēh"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Norse: *ᚠᛖᚺᚢ (*fehu /⁠fehu, fēhu⁠/), *ᚠᛖᚺ (*feh /⁠fēh⁠/)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Norse: *ᚠᛖᚺᚢ (*fehu /⁠fehu, fēhu⁠/), *ᚠᛖᚺ (*feh /⁠fēh⁠/)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "fé"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: fé\nIcelandic: fé\nFaroese: fæ\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fe; (dialectal) fi\nNorwegian Bokmål: fe\nOld Swedish: fǣ\nSwedish: fä\nDanish: fæ",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: fé\nIcelandic: fé\nFaroese: fæ\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fe; (dialectal) fi\nNorwegian Bokmål: fe\nOld Swedish: fǣ\nSwedish: fä\nDanish: fæ"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "got",
            "2": "𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*peḱ-",
        "id": "livestock"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*péḱu"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *péḱu",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From early *péku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "u-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehauz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehiwi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehū",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nopl": "1"
      },
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fehu",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "livestock, cattle"
      ],
      "id": "en-fehu-gem-pro-noun-ucW6kx2l",
      "links": [
        [
          "livestock",
          "livestock"
        ],
        [
          "cattle",
          "cattle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "property, wealth"
      ],
      "id": "en-fehu-gem-pro-noun-WKy3hTvX",
      "links": [
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 18 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of the rune ᚠ (f)"
      ],
      "id": "en-fehu-gem-pro-noun-KHXXTHmm",
      "links": [
        [
          "ᚠ",
          "ᚠ#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Runic alphabet",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᚠ (f)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸe.xu/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fehu"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Germanic lemmas",
    "Proto-Germanic neuter nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peḱ- (livestock)",
    "Proto-Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Proto-Germanic u-stem nouns",
    "gem-pro:Agriculture",
    "gem-pro:Mammals",
    "gem-pro:Runic letter names"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "fehufrekaz"
    },
    {
      "word": "fehufangą"
    },
    {
      "word": "fehugernaz"
    },
    {
      "word": "fehuhūsą"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*fehu"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *fehu\nOld English: feoh, fioh, feh\nMiddle English: feh, fe, fee (with Old French)\nEnglish: fee\nScots: fe, fee, fiel\nOld Frisian: fia\nSaterland Frisian: Fäi\nWest Frisian: fee\nOld Saxon: fehu, feho, feu\nMiddle Low German: vehe, veh, vê, vie\nGerman Low German: Veeh, Veh, Veih n (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)\nPlautdietsch: Fee\nOld Dutch: fē, fio, fiu\nMiddle Dutch: vêe\nDutch: vee\nAfrikaans: vee\nNegerhollands: vee\nLimburgish: vieë, vieëch\nOld High German: fihu\nMiddle High German: vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vech, vie, vē\nAlemannic German: Vëh\nSwabian: Viech\nBavarian: Viech\nCimbrian: viighe, biighe (Mezzaselva)\nEast Central German:\nUpper Saxon German: Viech\nGerman: Vieh; Viech (with distinction)\nLuxembourgish: Véi\nRhine Franconian:\nHessian: Veh, Veih, Vieh\nPalatine: Veh, Vieh, Viech\nYiddish: פֿיך (fikh)\n→ Vulgar Latin: *feus\nOld French: fieu (dated 11th-century) (see there for further descendants)\nOld Occitan: feu\nCatalan: feu\nOccitan: fèu\nMedieval Latin: fevum (dated 899, La Garde-Freinet, France)\nOld French: fief m (dated 13th-century)\nMiddle French: fief\nFrench: fief\n→ Romanian: fief\n→ English: fief\nOld French: feffe, feoffe f\nMiddle French: fieffe\n→ Middle English: feffe, feoffe\nEnglish: feoff\n⇒ Medieval Latin: feudum, feodum (see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *fehu\nOld English: feoh, fioh, feh\nMiddle English: feh, fe, fee (with Old French)\nEnglish: fee\nScots: fe, fee, fiel\nOld Frisian: fia\nSaterland Frisian: Fäi\nWest Frisian: fee\nOld Saxon: fehu, feho, feu\nMiddle Low German: vehe, veh, vê, vie\nGerman Low German: Veeh, Veh, Veih n (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)\nPlautdietsch: Fee\nOld Dutch: fē, fio, fiu\nMiddle Dutch: vêe\nDutch: vee\nAfrikaans: vee\nNegerhollands: vee\nLimburgish: vieë, vieëch\nOld High German: fihu\nMiddle High German: vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vech, vie, vē\nAlemannic German: Vëh\nSwabian: Viech\nBavarian: Viech\nCimbrian: viighe, biighe (Mezzaselva)\nEast Central German:\nUpper Saxon German: Viech\nGerman: Vieh; Viech (with distinction)\nLuxembourgish: Véi\nRhine Franconian:\nHessian: Veh, Veih, Vieh\nPalatine: Veh, Vieh, Viech\nYiddish: פֿיך (fikh)\n→ Vulgar Latin: *feus\nOld French: fieu (dated 11th-century) (see there for further descendants)\nOld Occitan: feu\nCatalan: feu\nOccitan: fèu\nMedieval Latin: fevum (dated 899, La Garde-Freinet, France)\nOld French: fief m (dated 13th-century)\nMiddle French: fief\nFrench: fief\n→ Romanian: fief\n→ English: fief\nOld French: feffe, feoffe f\nMiddle French: fieffe\n→ Middle English: feffe, feoffe\nEnglish: feoff\n⇒ Medieval Latin: feudum, feodum (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmq-pro",
            "2": "*ᚠᛖᚺᚢ",
            "3": "*ᚠᛖᚺ",
            "ts1": "fehu, fēhu",
            "ts2": "fēh"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Norse: *ᚠᛖᚺᚢ (*fehu /⁠fehu, fēhu⁠/), *ᚠᛖᚺ (*feh /⁠fēh⁠/)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Norse: *ᚠᛖᚺᚢ (*fehu /⁠fehu, fēhu⁠/), *ᚠᛖᚺ (*feh /⁠fēh⁠/)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "fé"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: fé\nIcelandic: fé\nFaroese: fæ\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fe; (dialectal) fi\nNorwegian Bokmål: fe\nOld Swedish: fǣ\nSwedish: fä\nDanish: fæ",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: fé\nIcelandic: fé\nFaroese: fæ\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fe; (dialectal) fi\nNorwegian Bokmål: fe\nOld Swedish: fǣ\nSwedish: fä\nDanish: fæ"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "got",
            "2": "𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*peḱ-",
        "id": "livestock"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*péḱu"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *péḱu",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From early *péku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "u-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehauz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehiwi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fehū",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nopl": "1"
      },
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fehu",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "gem-pro:Cattle",
        "gem-pro:Livestock"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "livestock, cattle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "livestock",
          "livestock"
        ],
        [
          "cattle",
          "cattle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "gem-pro:Money"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "property, wealth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "gem-pro:Runic letter names"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of the rune ᚠ (f)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ᚠ",
          "ᚠ#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Runic alphabet",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᚠ (f)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸe.xu/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fehu"
}

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