See also: felé, -féle, felë, fêle, and fêlé

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Etymology edit

From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (much, many, very), from Proto-Germanic *felu (very, much), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁u (many). Cognate with Scots fele (many, much, great), Dutch veel (much, many), German viel (much, many), Latin plūs (more), Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, many). Related to full.

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fele

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) Greatly, much, very
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, [], London: [] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, [], →OCLC:
      For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.

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fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) Much; many.
    • 1513, Gavin Douglas, Eneados:
      This cruel monstre, [] Infect with fell venoum;
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, [], London: [] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, [], →OCLC:
      So fele shippes this yere there ware / That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare.
      So fele ships this year there were / that much loss for unfreight they bore.

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fele

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) Many (of).

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Hungarian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛlɛ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: fe‧le
  • Rhymes: -lɛ

Etymology 1 edit

Postposition edit

fele

  1. (folksy) Alternative form of felé (toward(s), around)

Etymology 2 edit

From the fel- stem of fél (half) +‎ -e (his/her/its, possessive suffix).

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fele (not comparable)

  1. half (of the)
    A fele gond az enyém.Half (of) the trouble is mine.
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fele

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fél: its half, half of…
    A pénz fele az enyém.Half of the money is mine.
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative fele
accusative felét
dative felének
instrumental felével
causal-final feléért
translative felévé
terminative feléig
essive-formal feleként
essive-modal feléül
inessive felében
superessive felén
adessive felénél
illative felébe
sublative felére
allative feléhez
elative feléből
delative feléről
ablative felétől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
feléé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
felééi
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Further reading edit

  • (noun sense; a derivative of fél (its half)): (2): fél in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (adjective): fele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (postposition; dialectal alternative form of felé (towards him/her/it)): (1): felé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Noun edit

fēle

  1. ablative singular of fēlēs

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Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old English fela, felu, from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

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Determiner edit

fele

  1. Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.
    • c. 1375, “Book II”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß [] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 5, verso, lines 240-242; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
      James off Dowglas þat wes ſyne / Þ[at] yheyt þan wes bot litill off my[ch]t / And oþir fele folk foꝛſye in fy[ch]t []
      James of Douglas was next; / [he] was then only weak in power / and many other people, mighty in war []
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Descendants edit
  • English: fele (obsolete)
  • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

Pronoun edit

fele

  1. Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.
Descendants edit
  • English: fele (obsolete)
  • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

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fele

  1. great, large, extreme
  2. (rare) numerous, manifold
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  • English: fele (obsolete)
  • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

Adverb edit

fele

  1. In a large amount or magnitude; much.
  2. Very; to an extreme degree.
Descendants edit
  • English: fele (obsolete)
  • Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

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Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Old English fǣle, from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz.

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fele (uncommon)

  1. good, excellent
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Etymology 3 edit

A back-formation from felen (to feel).

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fele (uncountable) (rare, Northern)

  1. The sense of touch; the capacity to feel.
  2. (by extension) Awareness, perception.
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fele

  1. Alternative form of felawe

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Verb edit

fele

  1. Alternative form of felen (to feel)

Neapolitan edit

Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin *felem m or f, from Latin fel n.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈfɛːlə]
  • (Castelmezzano) IPA(key): [ˈfeːlə]

Noun edit

fele m (plural [please provide])

  1. bile

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 140: “il fiele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “fèle”, in Schedario Napoletano

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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ei fele
a violin

Etymology edit

From Old Norse fiðla. Compare English fiddle.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

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fele f or m (definite singular fela or felen, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

  1. a violin
  2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

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“fele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Norse fiðla.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

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fele f (definite singular fela, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

  1. a violin
  2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

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“fele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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fele (relative)

  1. Alternative form of fil

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fele

  1. inflection of felar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative