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See also: Fier, fiêr, and -fier

English

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Pronunciation

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See fire.

Noun

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fier (plural fiers)

  1. Archaic form of fire.
    • 1849, William Strachey, Richard Henry Major, The History of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, page 92:
      They have also divers conjurations: one they made at what tyme they had taken Captain Smyth prisoner, to know, as they reported, if any more of his countrymen would arrive there, and what they intended; the manner of yt Captain Smyth observed to be as followeth : first, soe some as daie was shut in, they kindled a faire great fier in a lone howse, about which assembled seven priests, takinge Captain Smyth by the hand, and appointing him his seat; about the fier they made a kynd of enchanted circle of meale; that done, the chifest priest, attyred as is expressed, gravely began to sing and shake his rattle, solemly rownding and marching about the fier, the rest followed him silently untill his song was done, which they all shutt up with a groane.
    • 2000, Colin G. Calloway, Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England, →ISBN:
      The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.
    • 2012, Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race, →ISBN, page 45:
      The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.”

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References

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  • The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1989). Oxford University Press. Vol. V. pp. 242-243.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *pʰera, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)perHom < *(s)perH- (to fly). Compare Proto-Slavic *pero (feather), English fern, Lithuanian spar̃nas (wing), Latvian spā̀rns (wing), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, wing).[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *p(t)erH- (fern).

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Noun

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fier m (definite fieri)

  1. fern

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References

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  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 218

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French fier.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fir/, [fiːr]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: fier
  • Rhymes: -ir

Adjective

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fier (comparative fierder, superlative fierst)

  1. proud

Declension

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Declension of fier
uninflected fier
inflected fiere
comparative fierder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial fier fierder het fierst
het fierste
indefinite m./f. sing. fiere fierdere fierste
n. sing. fier fierder fierste
plural fiere fierdere fierste
definite fiere fierdere fierste
partitive fiers fierders

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  • Papiamentu: fier (dated)

East Central German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German vür, from Old High German furi, from Proto-West Germanic *furi, from Proto-Germanic *furi.

Compare Luxembourgish fir, German für, English for.

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fier

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) for

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  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:

French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French fer, from Latin ferus.

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fier (feminine fière, masculine plural fiers, feminine plural fières)

  1. proud
  2. remarkable (in this sense always used before the noun it qualifies)
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old French fier, from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere.

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Verb

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fier

  1. (reflexive, se fier à quelqu'un) to trust someone (à), to rely on someone (à)
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Hunsrik

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Hunsrik numbers (edit)
40
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    Cardinal: fier
    Ordinal: fiert

Etymology

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Inherited from Central Franconian vier, from Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.[1]

Cognate with German vier and Luxembourgish véier.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfiːa/
  • Rhymes: -iːa
  • Syllabification: fier

Numeral

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fier

  1. four
    Ich hon fier Menner gesihn.
    I have seen four men.
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References

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  1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “fier”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 54, column 2

Jamaican Creole

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Etymology

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Derived from English fair.

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fier

  1. fair
    • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Aks 27:8:
      an bieli manij fi riich a wan plies niem Fier Ievnz nier Lasiiya toun.
      and we barely managed to reach a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

Middle English

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Noun

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fier

  1. Alternative form of figer
  2. Alternative form of fyr

Old French

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Alternative forms

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  • fïer (diaereses not universally used by scholars of Old French)

Etymology

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From Latin fīdō.

Verb

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fier

  1. (reflexive, se fier) to trust (someone, something)

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

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Descendants

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Romanian

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Chemical element
Fe
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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin ferrum.

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Noun

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fier n (plural fiare)

  1. (uncountable) iron
    Fierul este un metal.
    Iron is a metal.
    Bunica mea are multe oale de fier.
    My grandmother has many iron pots.
  2. (countable) tool made of iron

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative fier fierul fiare fiarele
genitive-dative fier fierului fiare fiarelor
vocative fierule fiarelor

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Romansch

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Etymology

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From Latin ferrum. Compare Friulian fiêr.

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fier m

  1. iron

Walloon

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Etymology

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From Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

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Noun

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fier m (plural fiers)

  1. iron

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian fir, fer, from Proto-West Germanic and Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

Adjective

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fier

  1. far, distant

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Inflection of fier
uninflected fier
inflected fiere
comparative fierder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial fier fierder it fierst
it fierste
indefinite c. sing. fiere fierdere fierste
n. sing. fier fierder fierste
plural fiere fierdere fierste
definite fiere fierdere fierste
partitive fiers fierders

Further reading

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  • fier”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

References

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  • Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN