fers
Englisch
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle English fers, from Old French fierce, from Medieval Latin ferzia, from Classical Persian فرزین (farzīn).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɪəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɪɹs/
Nomen
editfers (plural ferses)
- (historical) The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen.
- 1979 [1960], R. C. Bell, “War Games”, in Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations[2], 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 71:
- In the Chronique of Philip Mouskat (a.d. 1243), lines 23617–20, is a reference to a king of Fierges, indicating that a fers could be promoted to a king at this early period.
Catalan
editAdjective
editfers
Crimean Gothic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *firhwijaz. Krause & Slocum argue that the ending may reflect the Proto-Germanic nominative singular ending *-az.[1]
Nomen
editfers
- man
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:
- Fers. Vir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
editFrench
editNomen
editfers m
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editfers
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Old French fers, fiers, nominative of fer, fier, from Latin ferus.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editfers (plural and weak singular ferse)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “fẹ̄rs, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Old French fierce, from Medieval Latin ferzia, from Persian فرزین (farzin).
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNomen
editfers (plural ferses)
- queen (chess piece)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “fẹ̄rs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNomen
editfers n
Declension
editDeclension of fers (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fers”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[4], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old Irish
editEtymology
editNomen
editfers m (genitive ferso or fersa, nominative plural fersai)
- verse
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 137b7
- Is he in fers-[s]o ro·gab Ch[i]rine oc techt i mBethil .i. haec requies rl. "Bid fír æm," olsesom, "is sunt bia-sa in eilithri co llae messa."
- This is the verse that Jerome sang as he went into Bethlehem, namely, haec requies and so on; “it will indeed be true,” he says: “it is here that I will be in pilgrimage until the Day of Judgement.”
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111d1
- Noch ní accam isint saltair in fers n-ísin.
- However, we do not see that verse in the Psalter.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 137b7
Inflection
editMasculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | fers | fersL | fersaeH, fersai |
Vocative | fers | fersL | fersu |
Accusative | fersN | fersL | fersu |
Genitive | fersoH, fersaH | fersoL, fersaL | fersaeN |
Dative | fersL | fersaib | fersaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
|
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fers | ḟers | fers pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fers”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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