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Fin  ,, ‘feint,’ also ‘trick, fib,’ first occurs in , from  finta, ‘cunning’ ( feinte).   ,, ‘nonsense, drollery,’ from virlefanz, , ‘a sort of dance,’ whence the meaning in  ‘foppish, silly manner.’ Some have tried to connect it with  fillefant, ‘scoundrel,’ fantefolk, ‘gipsies,’ which would make it akin to. On account of the late appearance of the word it is impossible to decide, however, whether fyrlen, ‘far, distant,’ is the basis of the first part of the compound, or rather  firlei, ‘a dance’ ( virelai, ‘virelay’). See.  ,, ‘old, of last year,’ from virne, , ‘old,’ also ‘experienced,’  firni, ‘old’; corresponds to  faírneis, ‘old,’  fyrn, ‘old,’  fërn, ‘past’ (of years). The reference to the year gone by exists in the and  words, but does not appear to be found in  and, although the stem is known to modern  dialects;   fernig, ‘of last year.’ ‘In the preceding year’ is  vërt, vërne;  and  preserve even now an   fert, fered, ‘in the preceding year’;   fjǫrþ, , ‘in the preceding year,’ from  *faíruþ, pre- peruti (perouti),  πέρυτι, πέρυσι, ‘in the preceding year,’  onn-urid, ‘from the preceding year onwards,’  pernai, ‘in the preceding year,’  pa-rut. Hence the idea of ‘the preceding year’ is inherent in the stem per,  fer; the general sense of time gone by appears in the    and its cognates.  ', ',, ‘snow of the preceding year or years, glacier,’ an adjectival  in the sense of ‘old snow,’ first recorded in the last century; see the preceding word. —   , ‘last year's wine’; see.   ,, ‘varnish,’ from firnîs, ‘varnish, rouge’; from  vernis (whence also  varnish),  vernice. Finally derived from vitrum, vitrînus.   ,, , from the  virst,  first, , ‘ridge of a roof, summit’;   and  (with gradation), vorst, ‘ridge of a roof,’  first, fyrst, ;  *faírsti- or fairshti- is wanting. Allied to pṛšṭhá-m,, ‘back, summit, mountain-peak,’ which is nearest in sound to  vorst. From, freste,  frest, ‘gable,’ are derived.   ,, ‘fish,’ from the  visch,  fisk, ; a common  term;   fisks,  fiskr,  fisc,  fish,  visch,  fisc. fiska-z, from pre- pisko-s, corresponds to piscis and  iasc (with the normal loss of p from prehistoric peiskos). The word belongs to the three most western groups of the Aryan division, which have also the word in common; in East Aryan matsya. Further, there are no names of fishes common to and -. Perhaps the term was a migratory word of early civilization, the source of which cannot be discovered.   ,, ‘fart,’ from the  vist, ; akin to the   veest,  fist. A common Aryan root pezd appears in pêdo for pezdo, as well as in  βδέω, from *βσδέω,  bezdù (bezděti), Hence  fisti- is to be explained by Aryan pezd-i-. From the verbal noun fist a verbal root fī̆s, ‘pedere,’ was inferred in very early times. físa. <section end="Fist" /> <section begin="Fistel" /> ,, ‘fistula, reed, falsetto,’ from fistel, , ‘a deep abscess in ducts or passages,’ even in  fistul, formed from the   fistula; the term was first applied to the voice in. <section end="Fistel" /> <section begin="Fittich" /> ,, from the  vittich, vëttach, , , vëttache, , , ‘wing, pinion,’  fëtah, older fëthdhah, ; in meaning a collective of ;   fëtherac,  fëderah,  fëdrach, ‘wing’; the formation of  fëthdhah is not clear; was the  form *fiþþaks? The dentals are obscure, yet the word is undoubtedly related to. <section end="Fittich" /> <section begin="Fitze" /> ,, ‘knot of yarn, skein, wrinkle,’ from vitze,  fizza, , ‘a number of reeled threads tied together, skein, yarn’; akin to  fǫt, ‘clothes,’  vaȥȥen, ‘to dress,’ root fat, fet? ‘to spin’? ‘to weave’?. Yet it is more closely connected with fittea,  fitt, ‘chapters, divisions in poems.’ <section end="Fitze" /> ,, ‘quick, smart,’ first occurs in ; fixus and its Romance derivatives are not used in this sense; whether borrowed from it or not is doubtful. ,, ‘flat, shallow, superficial,’ from vlach,  flah(hh), , ‘flat, smooth’;   vlak, ‘even.’ Akin to the graded forms  flôc,  flook, fluke (‘flounder’), North  flook-footed, ‘flat-footed.’ This suggests  plaga, ‘district,’ or more probably, on account of its