fealとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 fele, fæle (“proper, of the right sort”), from 古期英語 fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz (“true, friendly, familiar, good”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey- (“to adore”). Cognate with Scots feel, feelie (“cosy, neat, clean, comfortable”), West Frisian feilich (“safe”), Dutch veil (“for-sale”), Dutch veilig (“safe”), German feil (“for-sale”), Latin pīus (“good, dutiful, faithful, devout, pious”).

別の表記

• feil, feel, feele, fiel

形容詞

feal (comparative fealer or more feal, superlative fealest or most feal)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
   • 1847, Henry Scott Riddell, Poems, songs and miscellaneous pieces:

     But if it stands in humble hame The bed, — I'll say this far in't, — Is clean and feel as ony lair King ever lay on — and that is mair Than mony ane could warrant.

2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
   • 1822, Allan Cunningham, “Death of the Laird Of Warlsworm”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 2, page 330:

     […] when I care na to accompany ye to the kirkyard hole mysel, and take my word for't, ye'Il lie saftest and fealest on the Buittle side of the kirk; […]

3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.

派生語

• fealy, feely

副詞

feal (comparative fealer or more feal, superlative fealest or most feal)

1. In a feal manner.

語源 2

From 中期英語 felen, from Old Norse fela (“to hide”), from Proto-Germanic *felhaną (“to conceal, hide, bury, trust, intrude”), from Proto-Indo-European *pele(w)-, *plē(w)- (“to hide”). Cognate with Old High German felahan (“to pass, trust, sow”), 古期英語 fēolan (“to cleave, enter, penetrate”).

動詞

feal (third-person singular simple present feals, present participle fealing, simple past and past participle fealed)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To hide.
   • 1768, John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs: Also the Most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages. The Whole Methodically Digested and Illustrated with Annotations, and Proper Explanations, page 29:

     He that feals can find. Pro. i. e He that hides, &c.

語源 3

From 中期英語 felen (“to come at (one's enemies), advance”), from 古期英語 fēolan (“to cleave, enter, penetrate”), from Proto-Germanic *felhaną.

動詞

feal (third-person singular simple present feals, present participle fealing, simple past fale or fealed, past participle folen or fealed)

1. (obsolete) To press on, advance.
   • 1338, Robert Mannyng, Mannyng's Chronicle:

     Durst none of them further feal.

参照

• The Middle English Dictionary

語源 4

Borrowed from Middle Scots feal, from Early Scots feal, from Old French feal, collateral form of feeil, from Latin fidelis.

形容詞

feal (comparative fealer or more feal, superlative fealest or most feal)

1. (archaic) Faithful, loyal.
   • 1877, Edward Arber, An English Garner: The voyages of Sir William Hawkins ...:

     France, and froward Ireland, with our English land, / Are feal subjects to your royal hand.

派生語

• fealty

語源 5

Unknown; see fail.

名詞

feal (plural feals)

1. Alternative form of fail (“piece of turf cut from grassland”)

アナグラム

• Lafe, Leaf, alef, flea, leaf

語源

Probably borrowed from Anglo-Norman feal (“faithful”), earlier fedeil, from Latin fidēlis; compare feaute.

In 中期英語, reinterpreted as fe (“fee”) +‎ -al, influencing both the sense and form.

発音

• IPA: /feːˈaːl/, /ˈfeːal/

名詞

feal (Early Scots, Scots law)

1. A stipend or allowance given to someone.
2. (rare) Ownership of land under feudalism.
3. (rare) Fealty; feudal allegiance, fidelity, or loyalty.

派生した語

• Middle Scots: feall, fiall
  • Scots: feal, feele (obsolete)
  • → English: feal

参照

• “feal(e, feall, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.