fella

Alternative formsEdit

• fellah
• feller

EtymologyEdit

From English fellow.

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɛlə

NounEdit

fella (plural fellas)

1. Eye dialect spelling of fellow.
2. (informal) used to address a male
   • 1997, Donald Meichenbaum, “Discussion”, in Jeffrey K. Zeig editor, The Evolution of Psychotherapy: The Third Conference‎, page 90:

     By the third go-around, the essence of what I wrote was, "And the same to you, fella!" I am glad that our relationship has survived that exchange.

   Am I right, fellas?

DescendantsEdit

• Bislama: -fala, -pela
• Pijin: -fala
• Tok Pisin: -pela, -pla

TranslationsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse fella, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną. Causative of falla (“to fall”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛdla]

VerbEdit

at fella (third person singular past indicative feldi, third person plural past indicative feldu, supine felt)

1. to fell
2. to snare

ConjugationEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse fella, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną. Causative of falla (“to fall”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛtla/

  Rhymes: -ɛtla

VerbEdit

fella (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative felldi, supine fellt)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to fell, to shed
2. (transitive, governs the accusative) to kill in battle
3. (transitive, governs the accusative) to fit together
4. (transitive, governs the accusative) to pleat

ConjugationEdit

Derived termsEdit

• fella tár
• fella hugi saman (to fall in love)
• fella af (to cast off)
• fella niður (to cancel)
• fella niður (to delete)
• fella niður mál (to dimiss a matter)
• fella niður lykkju (to drop a stitch)
• fella sig ekki við (to rather dislike something)
• fella úr (to drop something, to cut something)
• felldur
• vera ekki við eina fjölina felldur

VerbEdit

fellā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of fellō