fele
fele adverb: greatly, much, very.
Adverb
fele
- greatly, much, very
- For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC
Adjective
fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)
Pronoun
fele
- many (of).
Forms of fele
| Adverb | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | feel |
| alternative form | feele |
| alternative form | fell |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | feler |
| superlative | felest |
Origin of fele
From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu (“very, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁u (“many”). Cognate with Scots fele (“many, much, great”), Dutch veel (“much, many”), German viel (“much, many”), Latin plūs (“more”), Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”). Related to full, few.
Words formed from fele
Questions about fele
- What does fele mean?
- Fele means greatly, much, very.
- What part of speech is fele?
- Fele can be an adverb, an adjective or a pronoun.
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