different between feal vs felt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English fele, fæle (“proper, of the right sort”), from Old English f?le (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”), from Proto-Germanic *failijaz (“true, friendly, familiar, good”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey- (“to adore”). Cognate with Scots feel, feelie (“cosy, neat, clean, comfortable”), West Frisian feilich (“safe”), Dutch veil (“for-sale”), Dutch veilig (“safe”), German feil (“for-sale”), Latin p?us (“good, dutiful, faithful, devout, pious”).

Alternative forms

• feil, feel, feele, fiel

Adjective

feal (comparative fealer or more feal, superlative fealest or most feal)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
   • 1822, Allan Cunningham, "Death of the Laird Of Warlsworm", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 2, p. 330:

     […] when I care na to accompany ye to the kirkyard hole mysel, and take my word for't, ye'Il lie saftest and fealest on the Buittle side of the kirk; […]

3. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.

Derived terms

• fealy, feely

Adverb

feal (comparative fealer or more feal, superlative fealest or most feal)

1. In a feal manner.

Etymology 2

From Middle English felen, from Old Norse fela (“to hide”), from Proto-Germanic *felhan? (“to conceal, hide, bury, trust, intrude”), from Proto-Indo-European *pele(w)-, *pl?(w)- (“to hide”). Cognate with Old High German felahan (“to pass, trust, sow”), Old English f?olan (“to cleave, enter, penetrate”).

Verb

feal (third-person singular simple present feals, present participle fealing, simple past and past participle fealed)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To hide.

Etymology 3

From Middle English felen (“to come at (one's enemies), advance”), from Old English f?olan (“to cleave, enter, penetrate”), from Proto-Germanic *felhan?.

Verb

feal (third-person singular simple present feals, present participle fealing, simple past fale or fealed, past participle folen or fealed)

1. (obsolete) To press on, advance.
   • 1338, Robert Mannyng, Mannyng's Chronicle

     Durst none of them further feal.

References

• The Middle English Dictionary

Etymology 4

Inherited from an unattested Middle English word, borrowed from Old French feal, collateral form of feeil, from Latin fidelis.

Adjective

feal (comparative fealer or more feal, superlative fealest or most feal)

1. (archaic) faithful, loyal

Derived terms

• fealty

Etymology 5

Unknown; see fail.

Noun

feal (plural feals)

1. Alternative form of fail (“piece of turf cut from grassland”)

Anagrams

• Lafe, Leaf, alef, flea, leaf

Galician

Alternative forms

• fial

Etymology

From feo (“hay”) +? -al, suffix which forms place names. From Latin f?num (“hay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?al/

Noun

feal m (plural feais)

1. hayfield

References

• “feal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “feal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “feal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

English

Alternative forms

• felte (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (pl?st?), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek ????? (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

Noun

felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)

1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

Related terms

• felt grain: the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. — Knight
• felt-tip pen
• coated felt sheet
• saturated felt

Translations

Verb

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge

2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

Translations

Etymology 2

Old English f?led, corresponding to feel +? -ed.

Verb

felt

1. simple past tense and past participle of feel

Adjective

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 257:

     Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

Anagrams

• TEFL, flet, left

Danish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German velt, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“flat”).

Gender changed by influence from mark.

Noun

felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)

1. field (the practical part of something)
2. (e.g., sciences, military) field; an outlying area, as opposed to e.g. the lab, office or barracks
   • 2017, Palle Lauring, Svenskekrige og enevoldsmagt, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Han oplevede hele Tredveårskrigen i felten, fra først til sidst.

     He experienced all of the thirty-years war in the field, from the beginning to the end.

   • 1913, Anno 13 [i.e. tretten]: Tysklands rejsning mod Napoleon for 100 år siden

     Han var rykket i Felten som Kaptain og Kompagnifører, men var dog nu blevet forfremmet til Major, ...

     He had deployed as a captain and a company-leader, but had now been promoted to major, ...

   • 1986, Johannes Møllehave, Vor tids tid: nutidige og utidige tids- og tankespring

     Efter anden verdenskrig skrev Theodor W. Adorno: »Bemærkede man da ikke ved krigsslutningen, at folk kom stumme tilbage fra felten?

   • 2012, Daniel Silva, Portræt af en spion: En Gabriel Allon-roman, Rosinante & Co (?ISBN)

     Han overvågede Sovjetunionens sammenbrud, ikke ude fra felten, men fra et komfortabelt kontor i Langley, ...

     He surveyed the collapse of the Soviet Union, not from the field, but from a comfortable office in Langley, ...

   • 1918, Georg Friedrich Nicolai, Krigens Biologi

     ... Officerer og Mandskab, som vendte hjem fra Felten, ...

   • 1986, Grønland: årsberetning

     I felten blev der ikke observeret nogen torske larver i prøverne, ...

     In the field, no cod larvae were observed in the samples, ...

   • 1993, Danmarks geologiske undersøgelse, Årsberetning for ... ; Arbejdsprogram ...

     En af instituttets vigtigste opgaver i forbindelse med geologiske undersøgelser er dataindsamling i felten.

     One of the institute's most important tasks relating to the geological surveys is data collection in the field.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“flat”).

Noun

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

1. field
2. sphere, province
3. square

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “felt” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “felt,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Middle English

Alternative forms

• felte, feltte, feelte

Etymology

From Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lt/

Noun

felt (plural feltes)

1. Felted fabric or a sample or swab of it; felt.
2. A piece of headgear made from felted fabric; a felt hat.

Derived terms

• felten
• felter

Descendants

• English: felt
• Scots: felt

References

• “felt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German Feld

Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt or felter, definite plural felta or feltene)

1. field

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German velt

Noun

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

Derived terms

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon
• felttog

Etymology 3

Verb

felt

1. past participle of felle

References

• “felt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [1]

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German Feld

Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt, definite plural felta)

1. field

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German velt

Noun

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

Derived terms

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon
• felttog

Etymology 3

Verb

felt

1. past participle of fella

References

• “felt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþ?.

Noun

felt n

1. field

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: velt
  • Dutch: veld
    • Afrikaans: veld
      • ? English: veld

Further reading

• “felt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *felt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /felt/, [fe?t]

Noun

felt m

1. felt

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: felt
  • Scots: felt
  • English: felt

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [félt], [fé?lt]

Adjective

felt n

1. (neuter, impersonal, as an adverb) urgent, necessary, pressing, important

   Fäll var ä felt

   Certainly it was necessary.

   Hä jär int na felt om hä

   There is no hurry therewith.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English fillen, from Old English fyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan.

Verb

felt

1. filled

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN