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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fju?/

Noun

feu (plural feus)

1. (Scotland, historical, law) Land held in feudal tenure.

Derived terms

• feuar
• feu-holding
• feu-holder

Verb

feu (third-person singular simple present feus, present participle feuing, simple past and past participle feued)

1. (Scotland, law, transitive) To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.
   • 1813, "Keith", Entry in Nicholas Carlisle, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Volume II, unnumbered page,

     The Village of OLD KEITH is of ancient date, having been partly feued by the predecessors of the Family of Forbes, and partly feued by the Ministers, and stands upon the glebe: this Village is greatly on the decline, and almost a ruin.—About the year 1750, the late Lord FINDLATER divided a barren Muir, and feued it out in small lots […] .

   • 1841, Alexander Dunlop, J. M. Bell, John Murray, James Donaldson (reporters), Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Volume 3, 2nd Series, page 620,

     The prohibition of feuing beyond a certain extent was clearly implied; […] .

   • 2001, Richard Rodger, The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Paperback, page 68,

     But in effect, whereas Heriot's knew that their feuing conditions were subordinate to the law of contract, the Earl of Moray knew by 1822 that as a result of the Lords' decision in 1818 estate development could not be controlled by contract law and the feuing plan. […] The impact on the Moray estate was that […] despite a recession in the Edinburgh property market generally after 1826, virtually the entire estate was feued by 1836.

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin foedus.

Adjective

feu m sg (feminine singular fea, neuter singular feo, masculine plural feos, feminine plural fees)

1. ugly
2. bad, gloomy (weather)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?f?w/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?f?w/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?few/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan feu, from Frankish *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu.

Noun

feu m (plural feus)

1. fiefdom, fee

Related terms

• feudal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

feu

1. second-person plural present indicative form of fer
2. second-person plural present subjunctive form of fer
3. second-person plural imperative form of fer

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fø/
• (verlan) IPA^(key): /fø/, /fœ/, /fœ.ø/

Etymology 1

From Old French fu, from Latin focus (“hearth”), which in Late and Vulgar Latin replaced the Classical Latin ignis (“fire”).

Noun

feu m (plural feux)

1. fire
2. (cigarette) lighter
3. traffic light
   • 1999, Patrick Lemaire, Psychologie cognitive

     « Si le feu est vert, je passe » — If the light is green, I go

     « Si le feu est rouge, je m'arrête » — If the light is red, I stop

Derived terms

Related terms

• foyer
• fouace
• fougasse

Etymology 2

From Old French feüz, fadude (“one who has accomplished his destiny”), from Vulgar Latin *fatutus, from Latin fatum (“destiny”).

Adjective

feu (feminine singular feue, masculine plural feus, feminine plural feues)

1. deceased, the late

   Elle était la sœur de feu Jean Dupont

Further reading

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

Middle English

Determiner

feu

1. Alternative form of fewe

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fu.

Noun

feu m (plural feux)

1. fire

Descendants

• French: feu

Norman

Etymology

From Old French feu, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

feu m (plural feux)

1. (Jersey) fire
2. (Jersey, medicine) rash

Derived terms

Sardinian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin foedus. Compare Spanish feo.

Adjective

feu

1. (Campidanese) dirty

Scots

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fju?]

Noun

feu (plural feus)

1. feud, tenure, piece of land held by that tenure

Verb

feu (third-person singular present feus, present participle feuin, past feuit, past participle feuit)

1. to grant or hold land by tenure

Derived terms

• feuar (“one who holds land in feu”)

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin focus.

Noun

feu ?

1. fire

English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?um (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.

Alternative forms

• (rare) mew

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mju/

Noun

meu (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

   Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Fon m??wú (“meu”).

Alternative forms

• Meu
• mehu, Mehu

Noun

meu (plural meus)

1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

   Coordinate term: migan

References

Anagrams

• EMU, Ume, emu, mue, ume

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• a meu
• (a) njeu

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.

Pronoun

meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Usage notes

Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

Related terms

• miui
• nju

See also

• (a) tãu
• (a) lui, (a) ljei
• (a) nostru
• (a) vostru
• (a) lor

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan meu, from Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meus, meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

1. my, mine

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

• Also used after some prepositions:

Declension

See also

• mon

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

meu m (plural meus)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of mèu (“meow”)

Further reading

• “meu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician and Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mew/, /?m?w/

Pronoun

meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

1. (possessive) my

2. (possessive) mine

Interjection

meu

1. man; dude

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

References

• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “meu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ligurian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (môlos), ????? (mólos), itself from Latin m?l?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mø?/

Noun

meu m (invariable)

1. jetty, pier, mole

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin meum.

Adjective

meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

1. my, mine

   Synonym: mon

Descendants

• Catalan: meu

Old French

Alternative forms

• meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

meu

1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /mew/
• Hyphenation: meu

Pronoun

meu m (feminine minha, plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

2. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
   2. Pertaining or belonging to me; my; mine.

      O meu computador.

   4. That serves or interests me; my; mine.

      O meu ônibus.

   6. Introduced by me; my.

      O herói da minha história.

   8. Merited by me; my.

      Ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro.

   10. Related to me; my.

       Meu pai veio me visitar.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

See also

Interjection

meu!

2. (Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
4. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• me? (old orthography)

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mew/

Determiner

meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

Declension

Pronoun

meu m or n

1. (preceded by "al") mine

See also

• lor
• nostru
• s?u, lui
• t?u
• vostru

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meu/

Pronoun

meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

1. my, mine

Related terms

• tuu/tou/tuo
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

Zou

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese ? (m?o).

Noun

meu

1. cat (Felis catus)

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65