fele

• feel, feele, fell

From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, 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, few.

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.

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.

• feelefold
• the felest — the majority, most

fele

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

• elfe, feel, flee, leef

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛlɛ]

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• Hyphenation: fe‧le
• Rhymes: -lɛ

fele

1. (folksy) alternative form of felé (“toward(s), around”)

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

fele (not comparable)

1. half (of the)

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

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.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeː.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.le]

fēle

1. ablative singular of fēlēs

• "fele", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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

• fale, feel, fel, feole, vele
• feala, fela, felæ, feola, veole (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛːl(ə)/

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 […]

• felefold

• English: fele (obsolete, dialectal)
• Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

fele

1. Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.

• English: fele (obsolete, dialectal)
• Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

fele

1. great, large, extreme
2. (rare) numerous, manifold

• English: fele (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

fele

1. In a large amount or magnitude; much.
2. Very; to an extreme degree.

• English: fele (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

• “fēle, indef. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fēle, adv..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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

• feele, fell, felle
• feale (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛːl(ə)/

fele (uncommon)

1. good, excellent

• English: feal
• Scots: feal, feel, feil

• “fēle, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

A back-formation from felen (“to feel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeːl(ə)/

fele (uncountable) (rare, Northern)

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

• English: feel
• Scots: feel

• “fẹ̄le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

fele

1. alternative form of felawe

fele

1. alternative form of felen (“to feel”)

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

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

fele m (plural [please provide])

1. bile

• 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

From Old Norse fiðla. Compare English fiddle.

• IPA^(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

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

• (violin): fiolin

• felemusikk
• hardingfele

“fele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fiðla.

• IPA^(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

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

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

• (violin): fiolin

• felemusikk
• hardingfele

“fele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.le/

fēle

1. inflection of fēlan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

fele (relative)

1. alternative form of fil

fele

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