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Fes   (1.),, ‘fetter, chain, shackle,’ from vęȥȥel,  fęȥȥil, , ‘band for fastening and holding the sword,’ then also ‘band, fetter’;  fętel, ‘sword-belt,’  fetell, , ‘band, bandage, sword-belt’; akin to root fat (see , ), ‘to hold’?. The has retained its general sense by taking the place of another  word for ‘fetter’;  vëȥȥer,, ‘fetter, shackle for the foot,’  fëȥȥera,  fëter,  fëter,  fetters ,  fjǫturr. These words, which are usually connected with pedica,  πέδη, ‘fetter,’  compes, and hence with the cognates of , can scarcely be allied to the terms indicating a  *fatils, ‘sword-belt.’

 (2.),, ‘pastern.’ See.   ,, ‘festival, fête, feast,’ from the  fëst, , from  festum, whence  festa,  fête ( feast);  is the earlier loan-word. Gothic has simply a native dulþs, ‘feast.’ See.  ,, ‘firm, solid, strong,’ from vęst, vęste,  fęsti, , ‘firm, strong, steadfast’; see the corresponding  , which is not mutated; neither was the  originally formed by mutation, since, according to  fast,  fœst,  fast,  fastr, , ‘firm,’ we have to assume a  *fastu-, which is probably an old to-  like , , , , &c., from the root fas-, ‘to fasten’; *fasta-,  ‘fastened,’ then ‘firm.’  still retains only the verb fastan, ‘to keep firm, hold fast.’ See.  ,, ‘fetish,’ adopted by at beginning of the 17th. The earlier parallel form is more closely connected with the  base feitiço, ‘enchantment,’ but the modern form with  fêtiche.  ,, ‘fat, plump,’ only in , introduced by Luther from and  instead of the genuine  ;  fett,   vet from an earlier fêtt,  fœ̂tt, ‘fat,’ which, with  feiȥȥit, are derived from  *faitiþs; see. As to the origin of the idiom,, ‘to get one's due, give any one his due,’ opinions are divided; although the reference to ,  (to play one a trick), &c., supports the assumption of a purely  origin, some etymologists regard it as partly translated and partly borrowed from the  donner à quelqu'un son  fait, avoir son fait, others even as an ironical reference to the  faire fête à quelqu'un, ‘to make a person heartily welcome.’  ,, from the  vêtze, , ‘rag, tatters’; probably from  vaȥȥen, ‘to dress,’  fǫt, ‘clothes.’ From a   fata, ‘clothes,’  hato, and  fato, ‘wardrobe,’ are derived. , . In the dialectal compounds, , denotes ‘clothes.’  ,, ‘moist, damp, humid,’ from the  viuhte,  fûhti, fûht, ( *fûhtu- is wanting). The is West ;   fucht,  fûht,  obsolete,  vochtig, ‘damp.’ An allied root (pū̆k), qū̆k, quak, is assumed for  kysnąti, ‘to grow sour,’ kvasiti, ‘to acidify,’ which are scarcely connected with this word.  ,, ‘fire, ardour, passion,’ from the  viur,  and  fiur, older fûir, ;   vuur,  fŷr (from *fûir), ,  fire; a word common to West  for ‘fire’; in  fön ( funins),  fune, ‘fire,’ but it is doubtful whether they are cognate with  ;   (only in poetry) fúrr, , and fýre, , ‘fire.’ The r in all the words is a suffix, and fû (from pre- pû) the root;   πῦρ and  πύΐρ,  (πυρσός, ‘torch’). In a verbal root pû, ‘to flame, beam brightly,’ is found, whence pâvaká, ‘fire.’   ,, ‘primer,’ first occurs in early (15th ), probably a  word  formed from ; the earlier variant wibel (wivel?) points to  pronunciation. Perhaps represents.   ,, ‘pine, fir,’ from vichte, ,  fiohta, fiuhta, , ‘fir.’ No cognate term is found in any of the other  dialects, yet  is proved from the non- languages to be primitive;   πεύκη, ‘fir,’  puszìs, ‘fir.’ The  form is fuller by a dental affix than the  and  words.   ,, ‘fever,’ from the  vieber,  fiebar, ; from -Romance febris, with a change of gender as in  fêfor, ,  to  fever;  and  ie for e, as in , , , ; so too  ,  biever, from vieber, with an interchange of consonants, as in  and. <section end="Fieber" />