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Fei  formerly), from veime,, ‘condemnation, punishment, secret tribunal,’  *faima, , would, on the analogy of τέσσαρες,  fidvôr, favour the connection with the root τι in  τίνω, ‘to atone for,’ derived from ki, ‘to punish, avenge’;  ποίνη, as a derivative of the same root, may have been formed with a different suffix from that which appears in . In spite of the late formation of the word, its origin is difficult to discover and uncertain. Its connection with  veem, ‘guild, association,’ is also disputed. Others again refer it to  a-fêhian, ‘to condemn’ (see ). It is quite impossible to connect it with an older  form, , ‘oak-mast,’ which, with  dehme, deehel, ‘oak-mast,’ belongs to a different stem.   , , ‘holiday, festival, celebration,’ from  vîre, ,  fîra, fîrra, ‘festival, holiday’; borrowed from  fêria (formed from  feriae), with the lat ê strengthened, as , , , ; the cause of the rr in  fîrra is the i of fêria.   ,, ‘holiday, festival,’ from vîr-, vîretac,  firatag. —  , ‘to celebrate,’ from vîren,  fîrrôn, fîrôn, ‘to celebrate, keep a festival,’ formed from  feriari. The borrowed word is found in the languages of Middle Europe ( vierdag,  fîra), but is wanting in  and. The Romance languages preserve feriae in the sense of ‘fair’;   fiera,  foire (hence  fair). and. —   (since the 16th ), ‘vacation, holidays,’ has been derived anew from feriae.  ,, ‘cowardly, dastardly,’ from veige,  feigi, , ‘doomed to death, accursed, unhappy,’ then also ‘timid, cowardly’ (in the  sense  is wanting in the  dialects);   fêgi, ‘doomed to death,’  fêg,  veeg, veege, ‘on the point of death,’  fœ̂ge, Scotch fey,  feigr, ‘doomed to death, on the point of death.’ In the sense of ‘fated to die,’ the  is   ( *faigs). It has also been compared with pakvás, ‘ripe,’ so that the  cognates would represent pêkj, pêki (with an inserted vowel);. Far more improbable is the assumption that it is connected with faihs,  fêh,  fâh, ‘variegated,’ as is it were thought that the person doomed to death  by the fates was distinguished by some coloured mark. Some compare it with the cognates discussed under, some with paíkas, ‘stupid, silly,’ others, again, with an  féhian, ‘to condemn.’ See.  ,, ‘fig,’ from the  vîge,  fîga, , ‘fig’;   fîga,  vijg; derived, like other South  names of trees and fruits, from   (ficus, ), or more strictly from North  and  figa, whence also  figue. The fîctreów is connected directly with the, the later  form fig-tree being based upon  figue. ,, , varieties of fruit, which were borrowed in the period, or even earlier, from the   smakka, ‘fig,’ corresponding to  smokŭ, was obtained from a different source. See.   ,, from the  (rare) vîcwarzen, , vîcwęrze, , ‘venereal ulcer,’ for which is found, mostly in the same sense,  vîc, , from  fîcus, whence also the   fîce;   fico, ‘fig, venereal ulcer.’  ,, ‘for sale, venal,’ from veile, veil,  feili, with the curious variant fâli, , ‘purchaseable’; akin to the   falr, with an abnormal vowel. faili- has according to fâli,  falr, an inserted vowel in the accented syllable ; hence it corresponds to Aryan pêli-, and is connected with  πωλέομας, ‘to sell,’ and more remotely with the  root pan for paln-, ‘to purchase, buy, exchange.’ — , with sch after l for s, ‘to higgle, bargain,’ from veilschen,  *feilisôn, ‘to bargain for something.’  ,, ‘file,’ from the  vîle,  fîla, fîhala (not fĭhala), ; corresponds to  feól ( variant *fîl), ,  file,  vijl, ‘file.’ The  term is þél, , ‘file,’ with an abnormal initial sound; Goth *feihala or *þeihala must be assumed. The form with initial f from Aryan p points to the widely diffused root pik, ‘to scratch,’ akin to pingo, pictor,  pĭsati, ‘to write.’ Yet  þel, from *þîhl, points to  þinh,  to pre- tek, tenk, in  ; for the interchange of f and þ  , ,  (also  fîn, fîma compared with  dîme, ‘heap of corn.’   , , ‘foam,’ from the  <section end="Feim" />