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Fau  ,, ‘fist,’ from the  and  vûst. fûst, ; corresponds to fŷst,  fist,  vuist. This term, common to West, is unknown to ; in it may have been *fûsti- or *fûhsti-,. The possible loss of a h before st is supported by the connection with πύξ, ‘with the fist,’ πύγμαχος, ‘boxer,’ πυγμή, ‘fist, boxing,’  pugnus, ‘fist,’ pŭgil, ‘boxer,’ perhaps also pugio, ‘dagger’ ( ‘fist weapon’), and further pugna, pugnare, &c. The comparison of with  pęstĭ,, ‘fist,’ is less trustworthy; this is possible only if the assumed  *fûhsti is further derived from fuñhsti-, pre- pnkstí-; in that case, however, the  and  terms cited would have no connection with the word.   ,, ‘fooleries, tricks,’ only; of obscure origin.  ,, ‘to fight, fence,’ from the  vëhten,  fëhtan; a term common to West  for ‘to fight, contend,’ unknown to  and ;   and  vechten,  fluchta,  feohtan,  to fight. Whether the verb has always belonged to the e class is questionable; it may have passed from the  and  of the u class into the e class; in that case, we should have to assume  *fiuhtan, *fáuht, *faúhtum, *faúhtans, instead of *faíhtan, *faht, *faúhtam, *faúhtans. This conceivable assumption facilitates the connection with pugna, pugnare; yet the latter are probably only derivatives of pugnus, ‘fist’; perhaps the inferred  *fiuhtan, ‘to fight,’ is similarly related to.  ,, ‘feather, pen, plume, spring, flaw (in jewels),’ from the  vëder, vëdere,  fëdara, ; the term common to  for ‘feather’;   fëthara,  fëþer, , ‘feather, wing,’  feather,  fjǫþr, ,  *fiþra, , akin to the collective noun  (see ). *fiþra, from pre- pétrâ,, has in the allied Aryan languages some correspondences which prove the existence of an Aryan root pet, ‘to fly’; the  root pat, ‘to fly,’ pátatra, , ‘wing,’ patará, , ‘flying,’ çatápatra, ‘having a hundred wings or feathers,’  πέτομαι, ‘to fly,’ πτερόν (for *πετερόν), ‘wing,’ πτίλον (for *πετίλον), ‘feather’; it is less certain whether  penna, ‘feather’ (for *petsna?), is allied. See. —   ,, ‘picking of the feather from  a person's dress’ as a mark of servile flattery; found even in  —   ,, ‘lure,’ from vëderspil, , ‘a bird trained for hawking, falcon, sparrow-hawk, hawk.’   ', ',, ‘fairy,’ from the  fei, feie, ; borrowed from an  dialect , feie,  fée ( and Romance, fata,  ‘goddess of destiny,’ from  fatum), whence also  fay and fairy.   ,, ‘purgatory,’ from vëgeviur, , ‘purgatory,’ from  vëgen, ‘to purify’; formed on the model of  purgatorium.  ,, ‘to sweep, scour, winnow (corn), purge,’ from vëgen ( *fegôn), ‘to purify, adorn, sweep, scour,’  vegen. *figôn is connected with fagrs, ‘suitable,’  fœ̂ger,  fair,  and  fagar; from the root feh, fah, fag, fôg in ;  fœgja, ‘to cleanse,’ probably belongs to the same root (the  form being fégjan); Aryan root, pē̆k, pō̆k?.  ,, ‘feud,’ from vêhede, vêde,  fêhida, ‘hate, enmity, quarrel, feud’; corresponds to  fœ̂hþ, , ‘enmity, revenge, feud’; Goth *faihiþa, ‘enmity,’ is probably an abstract noun from the   *faihs, ‘hostile,’ which appears in  as fâh, fâg, ‘exiled, outlawed, proscribed’ ( gefâa, , ‘enemy,’  foe;   gifêh,  gevêch, ‘hostile, malignant’). A pre- root, pī̆q, ‘to injure, cheat’ ( also faih, ‘imposition, deception,’ bifaihôn, ‘to deceive, overreach’), is indicated by the ;   pìktas, ‘angry,’ pýkti, ‘to get angry,’ peíkti, ‘to curse,’ paíkas, ‘stupid’ (akin to  po-paikâ, ‘he cheats’). Respecting the interchange of meaning between ‘to injure’ and ‘to deceive,’ see. Hence foe is  ‘one who injures,’  fêhida,  ‘hurt, injury.’ <section end="Fehde" /> ,, ‘to miss, want, err,’ from vêlen, vœlen, ‘to fail, mistake, cheat, be wanting, miss’; borrowed in the  period (about 1200 A.D.) from  faillir, ‘to fail, miss, deceive,’ which again, like  fallire, is derived from  fallere. The word was also adopted by in the 13th ;   fail, likewise  feilen, ‘to fail, miss, deceive,’  (since the 14th ), feila. <section begin="Fehme" /> ,, ‘criminal tribunal’ (in <section end="Fehme" />