feie

See also: FEIE

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

feie

1. inflection of feien:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish feje, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn.

Verb

feie (imperative fei, present tense feier, passive feies, simple past feia or feiet or feide, past participle feia or feiet or feid)

1. to sweep

Derived terms

• feiebrett

References

• “feie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

feie oblique singular, m (oblique plural feies, nominative singular feies, nominative plural feie)

1. (anatomy or foodstuff) alternative form of foie

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian fēgia, from Proto-West Germanic *fāgōn, from Proto-Germanic *fēgōną (“to polish; to clean; to sweep”).

Cognate with Dutch vagen.

Pronunciation

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /ˈfai̯ə/
• (Wood, Hindeloopen) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛi̯ə/
• (Schiermonnikoog) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːi̯ə/

Verb

feie

1. to sweep

Inflection

Conjugation of feie

infinitive		feie
imperative		fei
		present	past
singular	ik	fei	fage
	do/dû	fagest	fagest
	hy/sy	faget	fage
plural		feie	fagen
		present	past
participle		feiend (feiende)	fage
auxiliary verb		—	hawwe

Further reading

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