different between fet vs fer

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

Pronunciation

• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /f?(?)/

Preposition

fer

1. (dialectal, especially Britain) Pronunciation spelling of for.

References

• fer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• REF, RFE, Ref, Ref., erf, ref

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faci?.

Verb

fer

1. to make

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?fe/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fe?/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan far, from Latin facere, present active infinitive of faci?, from Proto-Italic *faki?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”).

Verb

fer (first-person singular present faig, past participle fet)

1. to make, produce

2. to make up

3. to do, to cause to be done
4. to make do
5. to give

6. to lay

7. to cause
8. to go
9. (impersonal, of weather) to be

10. to play
11. to measure

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan fèr), from Latin ferus (compare French fier, Spanish fiero), from Proto-Indo-European *??wer-.

Adjective

fer (feminine fera, masculine plural fers, feminine plural feres)

1. wild (untamed, not domesticated)

Related terms

Further reading

• “fer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fer” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe??/
• Homophone: ferð

Verb

fer

1. third-person singular present of fara

French

Etymology

From Middle French fer, from Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• Homophones: fers, faire

Noun

fer m (plural fers)

1. iron
2. shoe (for horse); steel tip
3. (golf) iron
4. iron (appliance)
5. (in the plural, archaic) irons, fetters

Derived terms

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: fè
• Haitian Creole: fè
• Karipúna Creole French: fé
• Louisiana Creole French: fèr, fè

Further reading

• “fer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hunsrik

Etymology

Compare Pennsylvania German fer, German für and English for.

Preposition

fer

1. for

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Icelandic

Verb

fer

1. inflection of fara:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular present indicative

Latin

Verb

fer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of for
2. second-person singular present active imperative of fer?

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fer, from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?r/

Noun

fer m (plural fir)

1. man

2. one (modified by an adjective or demonstrative, referring to an object or animal)

3. used as a dummy noun to support a number, referring to a person, object or animal

Synonyms

• dooinney

Derived terms

• ard-er
• fer ynsee

Mutation

References

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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French faire.

Verb

fer (medial form fer)

1. To make
2. To do

Derived terms

• kifer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• feor, for, fur, feer, ver, veir, far

Etymology

From Old English feorr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?r/

Adjective

fer

1. Far.

Descendants

• English: far
• Scots: faur

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fer.

Noun

fer m (plural fers)

1. iron (metal)
2. (by extension) (iron) sword

Descendants

• French: fer (see there for further descendants)

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fer, from Primitive Irish *????? (*viras), from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?er/

Noun

fer m (genitive fir, nominative plural fir)

1. man
   • c. 1000, Anonymous; published in (1935) , Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 13, page 2: “In fer no·t?h??ged iarsint ?ligi do·bered in n-a?l isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din ch?tgab?il, iss ed no·ithed. [Each man who came along the way would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he got at the first taking, it was that which he ate. (literally, “The man who…”)]”

Descendants

• Irish: fear
• Manx: fer
• Scottish Gaelic: fear

Mutation

Further reading

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

Norman

Alternative forms

• faer (Guernsey)
• fé (France, Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

Noun

fer m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) iron

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fer

1. present tense of fara and fare

Occitan

Verb

fer

1. Alternative form of faire

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin ferrum.

Noun

fer m (oblique plural fers, nominative singular fers, nominative plural fer)

1. iron (metal)
2. (by extension) sword (made of iron)

Descendants

• Middle French: fer
  • French: fer (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: fé (France, Jersey), faer (Guernsey), fer (Sark)
• Walloon: fier

Etymology 2

From Latin ferum, accusative of ferus (“wild”)

Adjective

fer m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fere)

1. cruel; harsh
2. fierce; ferocious

Declension

Descendants

• ? English: fierce (from the nominative singular fers)
• French: fier

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fier)
• fer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old High German

Etymology

From West Proto-Germanic *ferrai., whence also Old English feorr.

Adjective

fer

1. remote

Adverb

fer

1. far

References

1. Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?er/

Etymology 1

From Primitive Irish *????? (*viras), from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Cognates include Latin vir, Sanskrit ??? (v?rá) and Gothic ???????????????? (wair).

Noun

fer m (genitive fir, nominative plural fir)

1. man
2. husband
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^c10

Declension

Derived terms

• oín?er

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fer
  • Irish: fear
  • Manx: fer
  • Scottish Gaelic: fear

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fer

1. second-person singular imperative of feraid

·fer

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of feraid

Mutation

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• ferr, ferro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?r/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *ferro, an old comparative form

Adverb

fer

1. far

Descendants

• Middle Low German: verre

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ferro.

Adjective

fer

1. far

Declension

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German für, Dutch voor, English for, Hunsrik fer.

Preposition

fer

1. for

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?r/

Noun

fer m

1. iron

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) far

Etymology

From Latin faci?, facere.

Verb

fer

1. (Puter) to do, make

Scots

Alternative forms

• fere, ferr

Pronunciation

• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /?f?r/

Adjective

fer (comparative ferther, superlative ferthest)

1. (South Scots) far

Derived terms

• fer ahint
• fer away
• fer ben
• ferness (“farness”)
• ferrer (“farther”)
• ferrest (“farthest”)
• fer sichty (“far-sighted”)
• ferther (“farther”)
• ferthest (“farthest”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English fair.

Adjective

fer (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. fair

Adverb

fer (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. fairly

Welsh

Adjective

fer

1. Soft mutation of ber (“short”).

Mutation