<span class="searchmatch">feawe</span> (Early Middle English or Kent) alternative form of fewe IPA(key): /ˈfæ͜ɑː.we/ <span class="searchmatch">fēawe</span> inflection of fēaw: strong accusative feminine singular strong...
of few. feu, feue, feuȝe, few fæu, fæwe, feaue, <span class="searchmatch">feawe</span> (Early Middle English) vewe (Southern); <span class="searchmatch">feawe</span>, veawe (Kent) ffewe (Late Middle English) From Old...
(“small, few”), from *pau- (“smallness”). Akin to Old English fēawa (“few”), <span class="searchmatch">fēawe</span> (“small, little”). IPA(key): /ˈfæ͜ɑː/ fēa- little, small; poor, lacking...
fēawa, <span class="searchmatch">fēawe</span>, fēa From Proto-West Germanic *fau, in turn from Proto-Germanic *fawaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-. Cognate with Old Norse fār (Danish...
recto: And he coulde there ſhewe no myracles butt leyd his hondꝭ apon a <span class="searchmatch">feawe</span> ſicke foolke ãd healed thẽ. And he merveyled at their vnbelefe. 1931, William...
latter of which occurs in words with eME /ɛː/ like dew (OE dēaw), few (OE <span class="searchmatch">fēawe</span>), hew (OE hēawan), sew (eME ē < ĕ, OE seowian), shrew (OE scrēawa), etc...