fieu

fieu

1. inflection of fiar:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

• IPA^(key): /fjø/

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• Rhymes: -jø

Borrowed from Picard fieux (“son”) and ultimately from Latin filius.

fieu m (plural fieux)

1. (Picardy, colloquial) son (male child)

From Picard fieux and Walloon fieu, ultimately from Latin filius.

fieu

1. (Belgium, humorous, colloquial) dude, my man

   Allez fieu, on se refait une bière?

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• “fieu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fuie

From Old French fil, itself from Latin filius.

• IPA^(key): /fjø/

fieu m (plural fieux)

1. son

• fil, fial (Languedoc)
• fiau (Auvergne, Limousin)
• hieu, hiu (Gascon)
• fiu (Vivaro-Alpine)

fieu m (plural fieus)

1. (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine) thread

• fe, fie

From Frankish *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).

fieu oblique singular, m (oblique plural fieus, nominative singular fieus, nominative plural fieu)

1. fief

• → Middle English: fe, feu
  • Scots: fe, fee, fey, feu
  • English: feu

• fiug (Sursilvan)
• fia, fiac (Sutsilvan)
• fi (Surmiran)
• fö (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

fieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) fire