feoh – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of feoh

Noun: feoh
Gender: n

Nominative

Singularfeoh

Genitive

Singularfēos

Dative

Singularfēo

Accusative

Singularfeoh

Sample Sentences

  • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
  • Ēalā ġif iċ hæfde feoh. (If only I had money.)
  • c. 893, Alfred the Great, Doom Book
  • Ġif þē becume ōðres mannes ġīemelēas feoh on hand, þēah hit sīe þīn fēond, ġecȳþ hit him. (If you come across someone else's stray cattle, let them know, even if they are your enemy.)
  • Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric
  • Ġif Cantwara æniġ in Lundenwīċ fēoh ġebyċġe, hæbbe him tweġen oððe ðrēo unfācne ċeorlas tō ġewitnesse oþþe cyninges wīcġerēfan. (If any person of Kent buys property in London, he should have two or three trustworthy men or the king's reeve, as a witness.)
  • The Old English rune poem
  • ᚠ byþ frōfur fīra ġehwylċum... (Wealth is a comfort for all mankind...)

Nouns inflected like feoh

sundorfeoh, wudufeoh, landfeoh, feoh,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu. Note that feoh must have transferred into the a-stems (and thus lost its -u) before loss of medial *h, or else it would be *fēo.
2. Cognates
3. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian fia (West Frisian fee), Old Saxon fehu (Low German Veeh), Old Dutch fē (Dutch vee), Old High German fihu (German Vieh), Old Norse fé (Swedish fä), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu). The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit पशु (páśu, “cattle”), Latin pecus, Old Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece”) and Lithuanian pēkus (“cattle”). See: Dutch Nouns 'vee', German Nouns 'Vieh', Old Norse Nouns 'fé', Swedish Nouns 'fä', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿', Latin Nouns 'pecus'.

Verbs referencing "feoh"

Middle English Nouns fe, English Nouns fee, French Nouns fief, Latin Nouns pecus, Gothic Nouns 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿.

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