feud en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /fɪʊ̯d/ (Early, Modern)
- /fjʉːd/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /fjʉwd/ (British, Southern, Standard)
- /fjuːd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /fɛʊ̯d/ (Early, Modern)
- /fjʉd/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
- /fjud/ (General-American)
- fyo͞od
- /fɪʊd/ (Wales)
Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”). Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).
Meanings
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A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
Mr. Cumming’s Dionysus in “The Bacchae” is conceived as a rock star, the rhythm-and-blues Maenads as his backup singers and groupies, and his feud with his cousin Pentheus, king of Thebes, as an encounter of the hedonistic, ambigendered, exotic Other, with “the fear of letting that into your culture,” Mr. Tiffany said.
2008 June 29, Celia Mcgee, “The Greeks Hoist the Dramatic Flag of Scotland”, in The New York Times:Wherein my sword had not impressure made / Of our ranke feud: but the iust gods gainsay,
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.
2015, “Arunachal Pradesh”, in H. M. Bareh, editor, Encyclopaedia Of North-East India, 1st edition, Mittal Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2022, page 72:
- A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
- (historical, obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| feood | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fewde | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fewd | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fede | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fead | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fuide | alternative | lexicographic | |
| feaud | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fude | alternative | lexicographic | |
| feuds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
feudist · feudlike · cyberfeud
Relateds
Translations (56)
hu viszály (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ca baralla (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · fr querelle (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ja 確執 (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · cmn 世仇 (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · es desavenencia (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · pl wróżda (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · tl rido (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · fr dispute (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · hu összetűzés (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ru междоусо́бица (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · la hostilitas (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · nan-hbl sè-siû (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · de Streit (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · es pelea (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · fr faide (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · nl wraak (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · sv fejd (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · nl vete (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ca hostilitat (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · cs svár (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ja フェーデ (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · os быцӕу (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ka შუღლი (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · es pleito (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · tl ubusan ng lahi (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · es rivalidad (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ka მტრობა (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · az ədavət (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · sq hasmëri (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · cmn 爭執 /争执 (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · sk zvar (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · de Feindschaft (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ms permusuhan (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · it faida (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · pl waśń (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · no feide (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · bg вражда́ (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ru раздо́р (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · la simultās (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · el έριδα (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · sco feid (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · es contienda (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · de Fehde (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ka უსიამოვნება (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ms perseteruan (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · es hostilidad (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ru вражда́ (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · es enemistad (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · bg кръ́вна вражда́ (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · os змур (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · fi vihanpito (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ru разла́д (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · ms persengketaan (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · pt rixa (A state of long-standing mutual hostility) · sh zavada (A state of long-standing mutual hostility)