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Webster 1913 Edition


Fer

Fer

,
Adj.
&
adv.
Far.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


fér

fér

See also: fer and fèr

Czech

Adjective

fér

  1. fair (just, equitable)

Related terms

  • férový
  • na férovku

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfeːr]

Verb

fér

  1. (intransitive) to have enough room (space), to find place

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • befér
  • belefér
  • kifér
  • megfér
  • odafér
  • összefér
  • ráfér

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wegrom (grass), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (increase, enlarge) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1] Cognate with Cornish gora and Welsh gwair (hay).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲeːr/

Noun

fér n (genitive féuir, nominative plural féra)

  1. grass

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fér ḟér fér
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 409
  • fér” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.