•a property (usually an estate) which is held in fief · anything held in loan or lease, or otherwise temporarily · a property which generates income that is made part of a fief
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish feghþ, feyd, borrowed from Middle Low German veide, from Old Saxon *fēhitha, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“enmity, feud”). Cognate of Old High German fēhida, German Fehde, Old English fǣhð.
köken: Borrowed from Old Czech léno, from Middle High German lēhen, from Old High German lēhan, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *lóykʷ-no-, from *leykʷ- (“to leave”).
köken: Etymology tree Latin hostilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin hostīlitās From hostilis + -tās.
a parish of Taboada, Lugo, Galicia · a village in Mavegondo parish, Abegondo, A Coruña, Galicia · a village in Meangos parish, Abegondo, A Coruña, Galicia
köken: Formed in modern times as a learned borrowing from Old Armenian աւատ (awat, “faith; fidelity”). A semantic loan from Latin feudum (“fief”), mistakenly believing it is from fidēs (“faith”). Doublet of հավատ (havat).