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fee

/ˈfi/FEE
/ˈfi/FEE

Meaningcattle, wealth, money

Common meaning: a payment

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√PAK‘bind, fasten, fix, hold fast’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 188, p. 736 · scan
  2. Old Englishfeoh‘fed, cattle, property’sourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishfeesource
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsfed, cattle, property → a paymentfee‘a payment’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Old English feoh ‘cattle, wealth, money’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry FEE, p. 205 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • feoh Old English “cattle, wealth, money”

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