different between xfer vs fer

English

Noun

xfer (plural xfers)

1. Abbreviation of transfer.

Verb

xfer (third-person singular simple present xfers, present participle xferring, simple past and past participle xferred)

1. Abbreviation of transfer.

Anagrams

• frex

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