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Fei . veim, feim, ;  the corresponding  fâm,  foam, which are  allied to the   phêna,  pěna. , from an earlier, ‘to skim’ ( , from raffiner, ‘to refine’).  ,, ‘fine, elegant, cunning,’ from vîn, fîn, , ‘fine, beautiful’;  *fîn may be inferred from the  fînlîhho, which is first recorded in a gloss of the 10th ;   fijn,  fine. Borrowed from a word common to Romance, fino ( fin), with the  meaning ‘perfect, genuine, pure,’ which is a late  form from  finire.  ,, ‘enemy, foe, fiend,’ from vînt, vîent, vîant,  fîant, , ‘enemy’; the common  noun for ‘enemy’;   fîund,  feónd,  fiend,  fjánde,  fijands. In contrast to hostis, discussed under, the  designates his enemy according to the disposition of the latter;  (  of the  root pî, pîy, ‘to scorn, hate’) is  ‘the hater’;   fîen,  feógan,  fijan, ‘to hate,’ akin to  faian, ‘to blame.’  is perhaps allied to it; for the transformation of the   into a   also , , and.  ,, ‘fat, in good condition,’ from veiȥt, veiȥet,  feiȥȥit, , ‘fat, greasy’; properly a  without gi-, ge- of a  verb *faitjan, ‘to fatten,’  feiȥȥen, which is from the nominal stem faita-, ‘fat,’  feitr,  veiȥ. With the assumed *faitiþs are connected  fœ̂ted, fœ̂tt, and  fat. *faita-, from pre- paido-, has no unquestionable cognates in the allied languages; it can scarcely be connected with pitĕti, ‘to nourish, feed,’ on account of the faulty shifting of the dental ( t corresponding to  t is impossible); it is more probably related to the root πῖδ, ‘to swell, flow forth’;  πῖδαξ, ‘a spring,’ πιδύω, ‘to gush forth.’  ,, ‘white willow,’ from vëlwer, older vëlwâre, , from vëlwe, ‘willow,’  fëlawa, fëlwa, , ‘willow tree.’ Probably Osset. färwe, ‘alder,’ is allied to it.’   ,, ‘field, space, square (chessboard), panel,’ from vëlt ( -des),  fëld, , ‘field, soil, surface, plain’; a word common to West  pointing to  *filþ, ;  and  fëld  (lþ in both dialects are regularly changed into ld),  field,  veld. It is still questionable whether fjall, ‘mountain,’ is identical with it, since the former is more probably connected with. On the other hand, the following are certainly allied: — fold,, ‘pasture,’  folde, ,  folda, ‘earth, country, ground’ (pointing to Goth *fuldô). pelto is derived from felþos, which, with  folda, is based upon the Aryan root plth ( pṛth), ‘to be broad, flat’;   pṛthivî, ‘earth,’ as well.   ,, ‘felly (of a wheel),’ from vëlge,  fëlga, , ‘rim of a wheel, tyre,’  also ‘harrow, roller for breaking clods’;   radvelge, ‘felloe,’  fëlg,  felly (rim, fellow). Is felga, ‘roller, harrow,’ to be connected with  *fealge ( falge, ‘fallow land’),  fallow, and its e to be regarded therefore as formed by mutation? valgen, ‘to plough up, dig,’ makes such a supposition very probable. It is possible that the two classes in the sense of ‘felloe’ and ‘barrow’ are not allied to each other. Between fëlga and  felga, ‘felloe,’ there is no connecting link.   ,, ‘hide, skin, fur,’ from vël(ll),  fël(ll), ‘human skin, hide’;   fill, , in þrûts-fill, ‘leprosy,’ faurafilli, ‘foreskin’;  fjall, ‘skin, hide,’ in compounds,  fëll, , ‘skin, hide,’  fell,  vel. Common to, but universal in the wider sense of ‘skin,’ both of men and animals. fella- from pre- pello- or pelno-;  pellis,  πέλλα, ‘hide, leather,’ ἄπελλος,, ‘(skinless) unhealed wound,’ ἐρυσίπελας, ‘erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire,’ ἐπίπλοος, ‘caul of the entrails,’ the latter for ἐπίπλοϝος, akin to  plėvė, ‘caul, skin’; also akin to  filmen, ‘membrane, foreskin,’  film; likewise  πέλμα, ‘sole of the foot or shoe,’ and perhaps πέπλος, ‘garment,’ as a reduplicated form (πέ-πλ-ος, root πελ).   ,, from the  velîs, , ‘valise, knapsack’; the  form is a corruption of the  word which is based upon the   valise.   ,, ‘rock,’ from the  vęlse, vęls, ,  fęlis, , felisa,  (from which  falaise, ‘cliff,’ is borrowed); akin to  fęlis, , probably also to  fjall, ‘mountain’; the latter would be *filza- in , the former *falisa-; in  and  the word is wanting. <section end="Felsen" />