fieu

Catalan

Verb

fieu

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjø/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -jø

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fieu m (plural fieux)

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

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

fieu

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

   Allez fieu, on se refait une bière?

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fuie

Norman

Etymology

From Old French fil, itself from Latin filius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjø/

Noun

fieu m (plural fieux)

1. son

Occitan

Alternative forms

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

Noun

fieu m (plural fieus)

1. (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine) thread

Old French

Alternative forms

• fe, fie

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. fief

Descendants

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

Noun

fieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) fire