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[fyood] Pronunciation Key
[fyood] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | Also called blood feud. a bitter, continuous hostility, esp. between two families, clans, etc., often lasting for many years or generations. |
| 2. | a bitter quarrel or contention: a feud between labor and management. |
| 3. | to engage in a feud. |
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| fee
(fē) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr.v. feed, fee·ing, fees
[Middle English fe, from Old English feoh, cattle, goods, money, and from Anglo-Norman fee, fief (from Old French fie, fief, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English feoh); see peku- in Indo-European roots.] Word History: It is possible to see the idea of money taking hold of the human mind by studying a few words that express the notion of wealth or goods. The word fee now denotes money paid or received for a service rendered. Fee comes from Old English feoh, which has three meanings, all equally ancient: "cattle, livestock"; "goods, possessions, movable property"; "money." The Germanic form behind the Old English is *fehu, which derives by Grimm's Law from Indo-European *peku-, "cattle." *Fehu is therefore a cognate of Latin pecu, "cattle," also a direct descendant of Indo-European *peku-. Latin pecu has several derivatives that ultimately were borrowed into English. One was pecūnia, "money," the source of our word pecuniary. Another was pecūliāris, "pertaining to one's pecūlium or property," the source of our word peculiar. Finally, our word peculator comes from yet a third derivative, pecūlātor, "embezzler of public money, peculator." |
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| feud 1
(fyōōd) Pronunciation Key
n. A bitter, often prolonged quarrel or state of enmity, especially such a state of hostilities between two families or clans. intr.v. feud·ed, feud·ing, feuds To carry on or perpetuate a bitter quarrel or state of enmity. [Alteration (probably influenced by feud2) of Middle English fede, from Old French faide, of Germanic origin.] |
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| feud 2
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n. See fee. [Medieval Latin feudum, of Germanic origin; see peku- in Indo-European roots.] |
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feud
feud
c.1300, fede, northern Eng. and Scottish, from O.Fr. fede, from O.H.G. fehida "contention, quarrel, feud," from P.Gmc. *faihitha, noun of state from *faiho- (adj.), related to O.E. fæhð "enmity." The whole group is connected to modern Eng. foe (q.v.). Sense of "vendetta" is c.1425. Alteration of spelling in 16c. is unexplained.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| feud | |
noun | |
| 1. | a bitter quarrel between two parties |
verb | |
| 1. | carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years" |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Feud\, n. [OE. feide, AS. f?h?, fr. f[=a]h hostile; akin to OHG. f?hida, G. fehde, Sw. fejd, D. feide; prob. akin to E. fiend. See Foe.]1. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. 2. A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. --Purchas. Syn: Affray; fray; broil; contest; dispute; strife.
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Feud
Feud\, n. [LL. feudum, feodum prob. of same origin as E. fief. See Fief, Fee.] (Law) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
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