fele

• feel

From Middle English feele, fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), 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.

fele

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Greatly, much, very

   For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere. ― Hakluyts Voyages.

fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Much; many.
   • dated 1456, from J. T. Gilbert, Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, vol. 1 (1889)

     Any maner of thynges desyryt […] heraftyr may be had and ygrawnt by the fellyst of the sayd comynes.

   • Lancelot (c.1500)

     Galiot haith chargit hyme to tak as fell folk.

     Galiot hath charged him to take as fele folk.

   • Gavin Douglas (1513)

     This cruel monstre, […] Infect with fele venom;

   • William Stewart (1535)

     so fele slaughter

   • William Stewart (1535)

     feill folk als out of Germania

     fele folk as out of Germania

   • Richard Hakluyt (1598)

     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.

• the felest — the majority, most

fele

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Many (of).
   • 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     , Book V:

     And fele of thy footmen ar brought oute of lyff, and many worshypfull presoners ar yolden into oure handys.

• feelefold
• felefold

• elfe, feel, flee, leef

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛlɛ]

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• Hyphenation: fe‧le

fele

1. (dialectal) in the direction of, around (variant of felé)

fele (not comparable)

1. half (of the)

   A fele gond az enyém. ― Half (of) the trouble is mine.

fele

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of fél

   A pénz fele az enyém. ― Half of the money is mine.

• ennek a fele sem tréfa
• minden viccnek a fele igaz

fēle

1. ablative singular of fēlēs

• fele in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Old Norse fiðla. Compare English fiddle

• IPA^(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

fele f or m (definite singular fela or felen, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

1. a violin
2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

• (violin): fiolin

• felemusikk
• hardingfele

“fele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fiðla.

• IPA^(key): /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

fele f (definite singular fela, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)

1. a violin
2. a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

• (violin): fiolin

• felemusikk
• hardingfele

“fele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

fele (relative)

1. Alternative form of fil