# fele
## English
### Alternative forms

* feel, feele, fell

### Etymology

From Middle English 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, few.

### Adverb

fele
* (dialectal or obsolete) Greatly, much, very
** 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.

### Adjective

fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)
* (dialectal or obsolete) Much; many.
** 1513, Gavin Douglas, Eneados:This cruel monstre, […] Infect with fell venoum;
** 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
    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.

#### Derived terms

* feelefold
* the felest — the majority, most

### Pronoun

fele
* (dialectal or obsolete) Many (of).

### Anagrams

* elfe, feel, flee, leef

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɛlɛ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fe‧le
* Rhymes: -lɛ

### Etymology 1
#### Postposition

fele
* (folksy) Alternative form of felé (“toward(s), around”)

### Etymology 2

From the fel- stem of fél (“half”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix).

#### Adjective

fele (not comparable)
* half (of the)
    A fele gond az enyém. ― Half (of) the trouble is mine.

##### Derived terms

* felerészben

#### Noun

fele
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of fél: its half, half of…
    A pénz fele az enyém. ― Half of the money is mine.

##### Derived terms

* felemás
* ennek a fele sem tréfa
* minden viccnek a fele igaz

### Further reading

* (noun sense; a derivative of fél (“its half”)): (2): fél in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (adjective): fele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (postposition; dialectal alternative form of felé (“towards him/her/it”)): (1): felé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfeː.le/, [ˈfeːɫ̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfe.le/, [ˈfɛːle]

### Noun

fēle
* ablative singular of fēlēs

### References

* fele in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English fela, felu, from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

#### Alternative forms

* fale, feel, fel, feole, vele
* feala, fela, felæ, feola, veole (Early Middle English)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛːl(ə)/

#### Determiner

fele
* Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.
** c. 1375, “Book II”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎, Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 5, verso, lines 240-242; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:James off Dowglas þat wes ſyne / Þ[at] yheyt þan wes bot litill off my[ch]t / And oþir fele folk foꝛſye in fy[ch]t […]James of Douglas was next; / [he] was then only weak in power / and many other people, mighty in war […]

##### Derived terms

* felefold

##### Descendants

* English: fele (obsolete, dialectal)
* Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

#### Pronoun

fele
* Many, much; an indefinite large number of or quantity.

##### Descendants

* English: fele (obsolete, dialectal)
* Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

#### Adjective

fele
* great, large, extreme
* (rare) numerous, manifold

##### Descendants

* English: fele (obsolete)
* Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

#### Adverb

fele
* In a large amount or magnitude; much.
* Very; to an extreme degree.

##### Descendants

* English: fele (obsolete)
* Middle Scots: fele (poetic)

#### References

* “fēle, indef. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* “fēle, adv..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English fǣle, from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz.

#### Alternative forms

* feele, fell, felle
* feale (Early Middle English)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛːl(ə)/

#### Adjective

fele (uncommon)
* good, excellent

##### Descendants

* English: feal
* Scots: feal, feel, feil

#### References

* “fēle, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3

A back-formation from felen (“to feel”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeːl(ə)/

#### Noun

fele (uncountable) (rare, Northern)
* The sense of touch; the capacity to feel.
* (by extension) Awareness, perception.

##### Descendants

* English: feel
* Scots: feel

#### References

* “fẹ̄le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

fele
* Alternative form of felawe

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

fele
* Alternative form of felen (“to feel”)

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *felem m or f, from Latin fel n.

### Pronunciation

* (Naples) IPA: [ˈfɛːlə]
* (Castelmezzano) IPA: [ˈfeːlə]

### Noun

fele m (plural [please provide])
* bile

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 140: “il fiele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “fèle”, in Schedario Napoletano

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse fiðla. Compare English fiddle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

### Noun

fele f or m (definite singular fela or felen, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)
* a violin
* a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

#### Synonyms

* (violin): fiolin

#### Derived terms

* felemusikk
* hardingfele

### References

“fele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse fiðla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /feːle/, [ˈfeː.lə]

### Noun

fele f (definite singular fela, indefinite plural feler, definite plural felene)
* a violin
* a fiddle; any form of stringed instrument

#### Synonyms

* (violin): fiolin

#### Derived terms

* felemusikk
* hardingfele

### References

“fele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeː.le/

### Verb

fēle
* inflection of fēlan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

## Old Irish
### Verb

fele (relative)
* Alternative form of fil

## Spanish
### Verb

fele
* inflection of felar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative