fel

From Dutch fel, from Middle Dutch fel, from Old French fel.

• IPA^(key): /fɛl/

fel (attributive fel, comparative feller, superlative felste)

1. ferocious, fierce
2. bright (e.g. sunlight)

fel

1. fiercely, ferociously

From Latin fel (“bile”) (compare Occitan fèl, French fiel, Spanish hiel), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛl/

fel m or f (plural fels)

1. gall, bile

   Synonym: bilis

2. (figurative) misery
3. (figurative) rancor

   Synonym: rancúnia

• “fel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

fel

1. Mixed mutation of mel.

From Middle Dutch fel, from Old French fel.

• IPA^(key): /fɛl/

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• Hyphenation: fel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

fel (comparative feller, superlative felst)

1. bright, shiny (e.g. sunlight)
2. fierce, feisty, even bitter
3. flashy, showy

• felbevochten
• felblauw
• felgeel
• felgekleurd
• felgroen
• felheid
• felrood

• Afrikaans: fel
• → Papiamentu: fel (dated)

fel

1. fiercely

   De Frisii waren een Germaans volk en net als verscheidene andere Germaanse volkeren wisten ze zich fel te verdedigen tegen de Romeinen — The Frisii were a Germanic people and, just like various other Germanic peoples, they knew how to defend themselves fiercely against the Romans.

• Afrikaans: fel

• elf, lef

Cognate with Swedish fuller.

fel

1. probably, likely

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fel (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fel, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛl]

fel m (plural feles)

1. gall; bile

   Synonym: bile

2. (figuratively) meanness

   Synonym: amargura

• “fel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• föl

From Proto-Ugric *pĭdĭ-, from Proto-Uralic *pide.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛl]

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

fel (comparative feljebb, superlative legfeljebb)

1. up, upward, upwards (to a physically higher or more elevated position)

   Synonym: felfelé

   Antonyms: le, lefelé

   Coordinate terms: fent, fenn, (at a physically higher position) felül

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with fel-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see fel-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

See the compound word derivations below, at the noun sense.

fel (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of föl (“upper part, surface”)

   Synonyms: (upper part) felső rész, (surface) felület

2. (rare, dialectal) Alternative form of föl (“skim (of the milk)”) or föl (“cream; the best part”)

fel

1. (obsolete, only in compounds) upper, higher

   Synonyms: felső, feljebbi, fentebbi, fentebb/feljebb/magasabban lévő

• (up): fel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (skim, best part; rare, dialectal): fel , redirecting to standard (1): föl in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (upper part): fel in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.

Uncertain. Either from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”), or from *bʰel-, *bʰl̥H- (“yellow”). *ǵʰ- > f- instead of the expected *h- is explained as being regular in some dialects.[1] Cognates through the first etymon include holus and helvus; Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”) and χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”); and English yellow and gold.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fel/, [fɛɫ̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fel/, [fɛl]

fel n (genitive fellis); third declension

1. gall bladder
2. gall, bile
3. poison
4. bitterness, venom

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

• “fel”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Borrowed from Old French fel.

fel

1. cruel, harsh
2. evil
3. terrible
4. dangerous

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: fel

• “fel (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “fel (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

fel

1. Alternative form of fele (“many”)

fel

1. Alternative form of fele (“many”)

From Frankish *fel, from Proto-Germanic *faluz; cognate with felon.

fel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fele)

1. evil
2. vile; despicable
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     "Fui!" fet Erec, "nains enuiieus!
     Trop es fel et contraliieus.["]

     "Flee" said Erec "pesky dwarf!
     You are too vile and maddening"

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (1. fel)

• IPA^(key): /fʲel/

fel

1. Alternative form of fil

From Old Portuguese fel, from Latin fel, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: fel

fel f (plural féis or feles)

1. sourness, acerbity, bitterness

   Synonym: azedume

2. (figuratively) sorrow

   Synonym: amargura

3. (medicine) gall; bile

   Synonyms: bile, bílis

Borrowed from Hungarian -féle.

• IPA^(key): [fel]

fel n (plural feluri)

1. sort, type, kind

   fel de fel de oameni — all kinds of people

   la fel ca tine — the same as you

2. manner, style, way

   În ce fel? — In what way?

   În felul acesta. — In this way.

   Într-un fel e un lucru bun că a plecat. — In a way it's a good thing that he left.

   Nu e în felul lui să fie neprietenos. — It's not in his nature to be unkind.

• gen

• astfel
• la fel

See Norwegian feil and Danish fejl. Used in Swedish at least since 1527. For the adverb, the now obsolete form felt was the dominant written form until the mid 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /feːl/

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fel (comparative mer fel, superlative mest fel)

1. wrong, incorrect, erroneous

   Fel svar ger inga poäng.

   A wrong answer gives no points.

No inflected forms.

• rätt, korrekt

fel (comparative mer fel, superlative mest fel)

1. wrong, wrongly, incorrectly, erroneously

   Hon svarade fel på hälften av frågorna.

   She answered wrong on half of the questions.

   Planen slog fel.

   The plan failed.

   Det gick fel

   It went wrong

• galet
• på tok
• snett

fel n

1. mistake

   Jag erkänner, jag gjorde fel.

   I admit, I made a mistake.

   Han har fel.

   He is wrong.

2. error, fault, deviation (from the correct or normal)

This list includes words based on the adverb (felcitera (“to cite erroneously”)) as well as the noun (felsöka (“to search for errors”)).

• fel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• fel in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)

• IPA^(key): /fel/

fel (nominative plural fels)

1. field (general)

Cognate with Breton evel, Cornish avel, Irish samhail, Latin similis. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /vɛl/[2]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

fel

1. as, like

• hafal

fel

1. (colloquial) (South Wales) how

   Fel ŷch chi'n ca'l ych nabod? ― How are you known?

From Old Norse *fél, from Proto-Germanic *finhlō (“file”).

fel f (definite singular fela)

1. rasp, file

fêl

1. to rasp, to file

   ja skull a hatt feld opp såga

   I should have filed the saw.