different between fet vs fee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-Germanic *fetan? (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-Germanic *fat?n? (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.

Verb

fet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past participle fet)

1. (obsolete) to fetch

Etymology 2

Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).

Noun

fet (plural fets)

1. (obsolete) a piece
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, "The Quest of Cynthia" (1810 reprint):

     That the bottom clear,

     Now lay'd with many a fet

     of seed pearl,

Etymology 3

Noun

fet (plural not attested)

1. (BDSM, slang) Clipping of fetish.
   • 1997, "NuBabyByte", Iron Shackles, Bare Feet (on newsgroup alt.torture)

     oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached.

   • 2003, "Morgane", Relatives turning up in the scene (on newsgroup soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm)

     It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago.

Anagrams

• EFT, ETF, FTE, TFE, eft, tef

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin f?t?. Compare Daco-Romanian f?ta.

Alternative forms

• fetu

Verb

fet (past participle fitatã)

1. (of mammals) give birth, foal, litter, calve

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Latin f?tus. Compare Daco-Romanian f?t.

Alternative forms

• fetu

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

1. young child, boy

Related terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin factum. Compare Old French fet, Modern French fait

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fet/
• Rhymes: -et

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

1. fact

Derived terms

• de fet

Verb

fet m (feminine feta, masculine plural fets, feminine plural fetes)

1. past participle of fer

Chuukese

Etymology

Contraction of föri + met

Contraction

fet

1. what is someone doing?

Icelandic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fet?, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

fet n (genitive singular fets, nominative plural fet)

1. step
2. (historical) a unit of measure equivalent to half an alin, or 3 lófar
3. foot (unit of measure equivalent to 12 inches)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• feit

Etymology

From Old Norse feitr

Adjective

fet (neuter singular fett, definite singular and plural fete, comparative fetere, indefinite superlative fetest, definite superlative feteste)

1. fat
2. fatty (especially food)

Related terms

• fett (noun)

References

• “fet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 2012) fit

Etymology

From Old Norse fit f.

Noun

fet f (definite singular feta, indefinite plural feter, definite plural fetene)

1. a grassy meadow, especially near a body of water

Inflection

References

• “fet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?t/

Noun

f?t

1. plural of f?t

Descendants

• Middle English: fet, feet
  • English: feet

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin factus.

Verb

fet

1. past participle of fere
2. third-person singular present indicative of fere

Etymology 2

From Latin factum.

Noun

fet m (oblique plural fez or fetz, nominative singular fez or fetz, nominative plural fet)

1. act; action
2. fact

Descendants

• ? English: feat
• Middle French: fait, faict
  • French: fait

References

• fet on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wintos (“wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ed/

Noun

fet f (genitive fite or feite, nominative plural feta)

1. whistling, hissing, the sound of a sword cleaving the air
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 3^a7

2. (musical intrument) pipe

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: fead
• Manx: fed
• Scottish Gaelic: fead

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “fet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish f?ter, from Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?t/

Adjective

fet (comparative fetare, superlative fetast)

1. fat, obese (about people or animals)

2. containing much fat (about food)
3. being especially fertile, profitable or lucrative; (slang) good, extraordinary, phat (a general intensifier, usually positive)

Derived terms

• fett (adverb)
• smällfet

Inflection

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse fet, from Proto-Germanic *fet?.

Noun

fet n

1. footstep, step

Related terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English fee, fe, feh, feoh, from Old English feoh (“cattle, property, wealth, money, payment, tribute, fee”) with contamination from Old French fieu, fief (from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (see feud), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”); whence English fief), both from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep, livestock, owndom”), from Proto-Indo-European *pe?u- (“livestock”). Cognate with Old High German fihu (“cattle, neat”), Scots fe, fie (“cattle, sheep, livestock, deer, goods, property, wealth, money, wages”), West Frisian fee (“livestock”), Dutch vee (“cattle, livestock”), Low German Veeh (“cattle, livestock, property”), Veh, German Vieh (“cattle, livestock”), Danish fæ (“cattle, beast, dolt”), Swedish fä (“beast, cattle, dolt”), Norwegian fe (“cattle”), Icelandic fé (“livestock, assets, money”), Latin pec? (“cattle”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f? IPA^(key): /fi?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: fi

Noun

fee (plural fees)

1. (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
2. (law) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
3. (law) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
4. (obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
   • 1844, The Heritage, by James Russell Lowell

     What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee.

   • 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 121:

     Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.

5. (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
6. (obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:

     For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.

7. A monetary payment charged for professional services.

Derived terms

• base fee
• conditional fee
• fee splitting
• great fee
• handling fee

Related terms

• feoffee
• fief

Translations

Verb

fee (third-person singular simple present fees, present participle feeing, simple past and past participle feed)

1. To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
   • 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:

     In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And fees the doctor; but too late is wise

   • There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed.

   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo

     We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.

See also

• fee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EFE, eef

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch fee.

Noun

fee (plural feë, diminutive feetjie)

1. fairy, pixie

Related terms

• feeagtig

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fée, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French fae, from Latin f?ta, from f?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/
• Hyphenation: fee
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

fee f (plural feeën, diminutive feetje n)

1. (folklore) fairy

Derived terms

• feeachtig
• feeërie
• feeëriek
• toverfee

Descendants

• Afrikaans: fee
• ? West Frisian: fee

Luxembourgish

Verb

fee

1. second-person singular imperative of feeën

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish figid, from Proto-Celtic *wegyeti (“to weave, compose”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to spin, weave”). Cognate with Irish figh.

Verb

fee

1. to weave, knit
2. to plait, braid
3. to interlace, intertwine
4. to mat

Noun

fee m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. verbal noun of fee

Etymology 2

Noun

fee m

1. genitive singular of feeagh
2. plural of feeagh

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

fee

1. Alternative form of fey (“liver”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fee n

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of fe

Romanian

Etymology

From French fée.

Noun

fee f (plural fee)

1. fairy

Declension

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian fia, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *pe?u- (“livestock”).

Noun

fee n (no plural)

1. livestock

Further reading

• “fee (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch fee, from French fée.

Noun

fee c (plural feeën, diminutive feeke)

1. fairy

Further reading

• “fee (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011