feid

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

feid

1. imperative of feide (verb infinitive)
2. past participle of feie

Adjective

feid

1. condition of being swept

Usage notes

A great number of verbs can be used as adjectives when inflected to the past participle, but far from all of them are used in this sense. The word feid is mostly used in the sense of something sweeping in the past (as a verb), as in: Jeg har feid gulvet fem ganger i dag = I have swept the floor five times today, where har is the auxiliary verb.

Old French

Noun

feid oblique singular, f (oblique plural feiz or feitz, nominative singular feid, nominative plural feiz or feitz)

1. (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of foi

Scots

Alternative forms

• fead, feed, fede, feide, fiede

Etymology

From Early Scots fede (cognate with Middle English fede), from Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːd/, /ˈfid/

Noun

feid (plural feids)

1. (archaic) A feud, enmity, carrying-on of hostility.