*fehu

Runic: ᚠᛖᚺᚢ Pronunciation: /ˈɸe.xu/

noun · neuter · u-stem

Meanings

livestock, cattle
property, wealth
name of the rune ᚠ (f)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (‘livestock’), a u-stem of root *peḱ- (‘wealth; livestock’), likely related to the identical stem meaning ‘to pluck (wool, hair)’). Cognates are Old Armenian ասր (asr, ‘fleece, wool’), Old Prussian pecku (‘cattle’), Sanskrit पशु (páśu, paśú;) (páśu, paśú;, ‘cattle, kine; any domesticated animal’), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬎 (pasu) (pasu, ‘livestock’), and Latin pecū (‘cattle; domestic animals’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	fehu	–
Acc.	fehu	–
Gen.	fehauz	–
Dat.	fehiwi	–
Inst.	fehū	–
Voc.	fehu	–

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Descendants

*fehu (Proto-West Germanic)
- fē, fio, fiu (Old Dutch)
  - vêe (Middle Dutch)
    - vieë, vieëch (Limburgish)
*fehu (Proto-West Germanic)
- fē, fio, fiu (Old Dutch)
  - vêe (Middle Dutch)
    - vee (Dutch)
      - vee (Afrikaans)
*fehu (Proto-West Germanic)
- feoh, fioh, feh (Old English)
  - feh, fe, fee (Middle English)
    - fee (English)
    - fe, fee, fiel (Scots)
*fehu (Proto-West Germanic)
- fia (Old Frisian)
  - Fäi (Saterland Frisian)
  - fee (West Frisian)
*fehu (Proto-West Germanic)
- fihu (Old High German)
  - vihe, vëhe, vich, viech, vech, vie, vē (Middle High German)
    - Vëh (Alemannic German)
    - Viech (Bavarian)
    - Vieh, Viech (German)
    - Véi (Luxembourgish)
    - פֿיך (fikh) (Yiddish)
*fehu (Proto-West Germanic)
- fehu, feho, feu (Old Saxon)
  - vehe, veh, vê, vie (Middle Low German)
    - Veeh, Veh, Veih (Low German)
      - Fee (Plautdietsch)
*ᚠᛖᚺ (*feh), *ᚠᛖᚺᚢ (*fehu) (Proto-Norse)
- fé (Old Norse)
  - fæ (Danish)
  - fæ (Faroese)
  - fé (Icelandic)
  - fe (Norwegian Bokmål)
  - fe, fi (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*ᚠᛖᚺ (*feh), *ᚠᛖᚺᚢ (*fehu) (Proto-Norse)
- fé (Old Norse)
  - fǣ (Old Swedish)
    - fä (Swedish)
𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉 (faihō), 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu) (Gothic)

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