feid
Norwegian Bokmål
editVerb
editfeid
- imperative of feide (verb infinitive)
- past participle of feie
Adjective
editfeid
- condition of being swept
Usage notes
editA 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
editNoun
editfeid oblique singular, f (oblique plural feiz or feitz, nominative singular feid, nominative plural feiz or feitz)
- (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of foi
Scots
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editfeid (plural feids)
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- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål adjectives
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns
- Anglo-Norman
- Scots terms derived from Early Scots
- Scots terms derived from Old English
- Scots terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Scots terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scots lemmas
- Scots nouns
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