different between fele vs fyle

English

Alternative forms

• feel

Etymology

From Middle English feele, fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-Germanic *felu (“very, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh?u (“many”). Cognate with Scots fele (“many, much, great”), Dutch veel (“much, many”), German viel (“much, many”), Latin pl?s (“more”), Ancient Greek ????? (polús, “many”). Related to full.

Adverb

fele

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Greatly, much, very

   For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere. ? Hakluyts Voyages.

Adjective

fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Much; many.
   • c. 1375, John Barbour, The Brus

     feill folk

     fele folk as out of Germania

   • 1513, Gavin Douglas, Eneados

     This cruel monstre, […] Infect with fell venoum;

   • So fele shippes this yere there ware / That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare.

     So fele ships this year there were / that much loss for unfreight they bore.

Derived terms

• the felest — the majority, most

Pronoun

fele

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Many (of).

Derived terms

• feelefold
• felefold

Anagrams

• elfe, feel, flee, leef

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?l?]
• Hyphenation: fe?le
• Rhymes: -l?

Etymology 1

Postposition

fele

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of felé (“in the direction of, around”)

Etymology 2

From the fel- stem of fél (“half”) +? -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix).

Adjective

fele (not comparable)

1. half (of the)

Derived terms

Noun

fele

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fél

Declension

Derived terms

• ennek a fele sem tréfa
• minden viccnek a fele igaz

Further reading

• (noun sense; a derivative of fél (“its half”)): (2): fél in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (adjective): fele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (postposition; dialectal alternative form of felé (“towards him/her/it”)): (1): felé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latin

Noun

f?le

1. ablative singular of f?l?s

References

• fele in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Noun

fele

1. Alternative form of felawe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fiðla. Compare English fiddle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?le/, [?fe?.l?]

Noun

fele f or m (definite singular fela or felen, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

1. a violin
2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

Synonyms

• (violin): fiolin

Derived terms

• felemusikk
• hardingfele

References

“fele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fiðla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?le/, [?fe?.l?]

Noun

fele f (definite singular fela, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

1. a violin
2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

Synonyms

• (violin): fiolin

Derived terms

• felemusikk
• hardingfele

References

“fele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Verb

fele (relative)

1. Alternative form of fil

English

Verb

fyle (third-person singular simple present fyles, present participle fyling, simple past and past participle fyled)

1. (Scotland, transitive) Alternative form of file

Anagrams

• fley, flye, lyfe

Middle English

Noun

fyle

1. Alternative form of fiele