Wt/sco/fer

See also: Wt/sco/-fer, Wt/sco/Fer, Wt/sco/fér, and Wt/sco/fær

English

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fir, fur

Preposition

fer

1. (regional) Ee dialect spellin o for.

References

• Wt/sco/fer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionar, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• efr
• ref

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Catalan

Etymology 1

unknown

Adjective

fer (feminine Wt/sco/fera, masculine plural Wt/sco/fers, feminine plural Wt/sco/feres)

1. wild

Related terms

• feral
• feram
• ferament
• feredat
• ferejar
• feresa
• ferest
• ferestament
• feréstec
• ferestegament
• ferí
• porc fer

Etymology 2

From Laitin .

Verb

1. make.

   Fer vinagre.

   To make vinagre.

   Quatre i quatre fan vuit.

   Four and four make eight.

2. make up

   Els jubilats fan un quart de la població.

   Retired people make up a quarter of the population.

3. turn into

   Fer d'un enemic un aliat.

   To turn an enemy into an ally.

4. give

   El primer marit li va fer dos fills.

   Her first husband gave her two sons.

   Feu-me mig quilo de formatge.

   Give me half a kilo of cheese.

5. lay

   La canària ha fet un ou.

   The canary has laid an egg.

6. produce

   Aquesta terra fa molt bon blat.

   This land produces very good wheat.

7. do
8. cause
9. go
10. make do
11. cause to be done
12. play
13. measure

Conjugation

    Conjugation o fer

infinitive			fer
present participle			fent
past participle			fet
person		singular			plural
		first	seicont	third	first	seicont	third
Indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	faig	fas	fa	fem	feu	fan
	imperfect	feia	feies	feia	fèiem	fèieu	feien
	futur	faré	faràs	farà	farem	fareu	faran
	preterite	fiu	feres	féu	férem	féreu	feren
	conditional	faria	faries	faria	fariem	farieu	farien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells/elles
	present	faci	facis	faci	fem	feu	facin
	imperfect	fes	fessis	fes	féssim	féssiu	fessin
imperative		-	tu	ell/ella	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells/elles
			fes	faci	fem	feu	facin

Related terms

• fa
• fer-se
• fer així
• fer com
• fet
• feta

References

• Institut d'Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4ta. edició). ISBN 84-412-2477-3.

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feːr/
• Homophone: ferð

Verb

fer

1. Third person singular present o : he, she, it goes.

Conjugation

   Conjugation o fara

fara, v-55
nummer	singular			plural
person	first	seicont	third	aw
Indicative	eg	tú	hann / hon tað	vit, tit, teir / tær / tey tygum
Present	fari	fert	fer	fara
Past	fór	fórt	fór	fóru
Imperative		tú		tit
Present	—	far !	—	farið !
Infinitive	fara
Pres. part.	farandi
Past part. a26	farin
Supine	farið

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French

Etymology

Frae Laitin ferrum.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /fɛʁ/, X-SAMPA: /fER/

Noun

fer m (plural Wt/sco/fers)

1. iron
2. shoe (for horse); steel tip
3. (golf) iron
4. iron (appliance)
5. (in the plural, archaic) irons, fetters

Derived terms

• ferraille

Relatit terms

• chemin de fer
• fer à repasser

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Latin

Verb

fer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of forTemplate:Wt/sco/la-conj-form-gloss/line0

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish , from Template:Wt/sco/Proto, from Template:Wt/sco/Proto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fer/

Noun

fer m (plural fir)

1. man
   • Cha nel mee lowal rish y fer aeg shen. I do not approve of that young man.

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Middle English

Adjective

fer

1. far
   • 1478 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Prologue, line 493

     Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.

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Occitan

Etymology

Laitin

Verb

Wt/sco/fer

1. to do
2. to make

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Old French

Etymology

From Laitin

Noun

fer m (oblique plural Wt/sco/fers, nominative singular Wt/sco/fers, nominative plural Wt/sco/fer)

1. iron (metal)

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Old High German

Etymology

From West Template:Wt/sco/Proto, whence also Old English .

Adjective

fer

1. remote

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Template:Wt/sco/Proto, from Template:Wt/sco/Proto. Cognates include Latin , Sanskrit and Gothic .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʲer/

Noun

fer m (genitive singular fir, dative singular fiur, nominative plural fir, accusative plural firu, genitive plural fer, dative plural feraib)

1. man
2. husband

Descendants

• Irish:
• Manx:
• Scottish Gaelic:

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Scots

Adjective

Wt/sco/fer (comparative ferther, superlative ferthest)

1. (Template:Context 1) far

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