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fer

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English

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Preposition

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fer

  1. (dialectal, especially British) Pronunciation spelling of for.

Derived terms

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See also

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terms containing the word "fer", but etymologically unrelated

References

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Anagrams

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin facere.

Verb

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fer

  1. to do

Conjugation

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin facere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fer (first-person singular present faig, first-person singular preterite fiu, past participle fet)

  1. to make, produce
    Fer vinagre.To make vinegar.
    Aquesta terra fa molt bon blat.This land produces very good wheat.
    Quatre i quatre fan vuit.Four and four make eight.
    Fer d'un enemic un aliat.To turn an enemy into an ally.
    Fer olor de roses.To smell of rose.
    Fer pudor de porcs.To stink of pig.
    (idiomatic) Fer bondatto behave, to comply with one's duty (an idiom, literally to make goodness)
    (idiomatic) Fer figato fail to achieve an expected result (an idiom, literally to make fig)
  2. to make up
    Els jubilats fan un quart de la població.Retired people make up a quarter of the population.
  3. to do, to cause to be done
  4. to make do
  5. to give
    El primer marit li va fer dos fills.Her first husband gave her two sons.
    Feu-me mig quilo de formatge.Give me half a kilo of cheese.
    Fes-me un petó!Kiss me!
  6. to lay
    La canària ha fet un ou.The canary has laid an egg.
  7. to cause
  8. (auxiliary) to make (someone) (do something), that is auxiliary verb to form the causative together with an infinitive
    em van fer tornar a buscar el rebutthey made me go back to get the receipt
    l'has feta ploraryou made her cry
  9. to go
  10. (impersonal, of weather) to be
    Fa fred!It is cold!
    Fa calor!It is hot!
    Fa vent!It is windy!
  11. to play
  12. to measure
Conjugation
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Balearic uses fais for the second person plural form in the present indicative instead of feu.

Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin ferus (compare Occitan fèr, French fier, Spanish fiero), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-.

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Adjective

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fer (feminine fera, masculine plural fers, feminine plural feres)

  1. wild (untamed, not domesticated)
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Further reading

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Faroese

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Verb

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fer

  1. third-person singular present of fara

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French fer, from Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

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Noun

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fer m (plural fers)

  1. iron
  2. horseshoe; steel tip
  3. (golf) iron
  4. iron (appliance)
  5. (in the plural, archaic) irons, fetters

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Antillean Creole:
  • Haitian Creole:
  • Karipúna Creole French:
  • Louisiana Creole: fèr,

Further reading

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Hunsrik

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Etymology

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Compare Pennsylvania German fer, German für and English for.

Preposition

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fer

  1. for

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Icelandic

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Verb

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fer

  1. inflection of fara:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person singular present indicative

Latin

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Verb

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fer

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of for
  2. second-person singular present active imperative of ferō

Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fer, from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

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Noun

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fer m (plural fir)

  1. man
    Cha nel mee lowal rish y fer aeg shen.I do not approve of that young man.
  2. one (modified by an adjective or demonstrative, referring to an object or animal)
    Ta fer jiarg aym.I have a red one [e.g. chair].
    Ta mee fakin kiare fir ghlassey.I see four green ones [e.g. birds].
    By vie lhiam yn fer shen.I would like that one [e.g. toy].
  3. used as a dummy noun to support a number, referring to a person, object or animal
    Ta fer ennagh ayns shoh laccal dy akin oo.There's a fellow here who wants to see you.
    Ta fer aym.I have one [e.g. chair].
    Ta mee fakin kiare fir.I see four [e.g. birds].

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fer er ver
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From French faire.

Verb

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fer (medial form fer)

  1. To make
  2. To do

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fer

  1. far, distant
    • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 493:
      Wide was hys pariſſhe, & houſes ferre a ſondre []
      Wide was his parish, and houses far asunder []

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French fer.

Noun

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fer m (plural fers)

  1. iron (metal)
  2. (by extension) (iron) sword

Descendants

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  • French: fer (see there for further descendants)

Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fer, from Primitive Irish *ᚃᚔᚏᚐᚄ (*viras), from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fer m (genitive fir, nominative plural fir)

  1. man
    • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 13:
      In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din chētgabāil, iss ed no·ithed.
      Each man who came along the way would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he got at the first taking, it was that which he ate. (literally, The man who…)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Mutation of fer
radical lenition nasalization
fer ḟer fer
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Norman

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Norman Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nrf

Alternative forms

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  • faer (Guernsey)
  • (France, Jersey)

Etymology

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From Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

Noun

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fer m (uncountable)

  1. (Sark) iron

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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fer

  1. present of fara

Occitan

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Verb

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fer

  1. Alternative form of faire

Conjugation

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Old English

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Verb

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fēr

  1. singular imperative of fēran

Old French

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Etymology 1

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From Latin ferrum.

Noun

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fer oblique singularm (oblique plural fers, nominative singular fers, nominative plural fer)

  1. iron (metal)
  2. (by extension) sword (made of iron)
Descendants
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  • Middle French: fer
    • French: fer (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: (France, Jersey), faer (Guernsey), fer (Sark)
  • Walloon: fier

Etymology 2

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From Latin ferum, accusative of ferus (wild).

Adjective

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fer m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fere)

  1. cruel; harsh
  2. fierce; ferocious
    • c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire:
      Quatre pez ad la beste, e mult est de fer estre
      Four feet has the beast, and it is of a very ferocious nature
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References

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Old High German

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Etymology

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From West Proto-Germanic *ferrai., whence also Old English feorr.

Adjective

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fer

  1. remote

Adverb

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fer

  1. far

References

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  1. Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

Old Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Primitive Irish *ᚃᚔᚏᚐᚄ (*viras), from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Cognates include Latin vir, Sanskrit वीर (vīrá) and Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂 (wair).

Noun

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fer m (genitive fir, nominative plural fir)

  1. man
  2. husband
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22c10
      Is bés trá dosom aní-siu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.
      This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.
Declension
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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fer ferL firL
Vocative fir ferL firuH
Accusative ferN ferL firuH
Genitive firL fer ferN
Dative fiurL feraib feraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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fer

  1. second-person singular imperative of feraid

·fer

  1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of feraid

Mutation

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Mutation of fer
radical lenition nasalization
fer ḟer fer
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Norse

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Verb

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fer

  1. first-person singular present active indicative of fara

Old Saxon

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *ferro, an old comparative form.

Adverb

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fer

  1. far
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Germanic *ferro.

Adjective

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fer

  1. far
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Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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Compare German für, Dutch voor, English for, Hunsrik fer.

Preposition

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fer

  1. for

Piedmontese

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fer m

  1. iron

Romanian

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Noun

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fer n (plural feare)

  1. Alternative form of fier

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative fer ferul feare fearele
genitive-dative fer ferului feare fearelor
vocative ferule fearelor

Romansch

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Verb

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fer (Puter)

  1. Alternative form of far (to do; to make)

Scots

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

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fer (comparative ferther, superlative ferthest)

  1. (Southern Scots) far

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fair.

Adjective

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fer (Cyrillic spelling фер)

  1. fair

Adverb

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fer (Cyrillic spelling фер)

  1. fairly

Spanish

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Verb

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fer

  1. Obsolete spelling of hacer.

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fer

  1. Soft mutation of ber (short).

Mutation

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Mutated forms of ber
radical soft nasal aspirate
ber fer mer unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.