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語源

From 中期英語 fele, from 古期英語 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.

副詞

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.

形容詞

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.

派生語

• feelefold
• the felest — the majority, most

代名詞

fele

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

アナグラム

• elfe, feel, flee, leef

動詞

fēle

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

別の表記

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɛːl(ə)/

限定詞

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)‎, 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 […]

派生語

• felefold

派生した語

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

代名詞

fele

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

派生した語

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

形容詞

fele

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

派生した語

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

副詞

fele

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

派生した語

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

参照

• “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.

語源 2

Inherited from 古期英語 fǣle, from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz.

別の表記

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɛːl(ə)/

形容詞

fele (uncommon)

1. good, excellent

派生した語

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

参照

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

語源 3

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈfeːl(ə)/

名詞

fele (uncountable) (rare, Northern)

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

派生した語

• English: feel
• Scots: feel

参照

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

語源 4

名詞

fele

1. alternative form of felawe

語源 5

動詞

fele

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

名詞

fēle

1. ablative singular of fēlēs

参照

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