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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle English fers, from Old French fierce, from Medieval Latin ferzia, from Classical Persian فرزین (farzīn).
Pronunciation
Noun
fers (plural ferses)
- (historical) The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen.
1898 January, A. A. McDonald, “The Origin and Early History of Chess”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 30, number 1, London: Royal Asiatic Society, →DOI, →ISBN, page 138:With their introduction the fers and the alfil disappeared from European chess.
1979 [1960], R. C. Bell, “War Games”, in Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 71:In the Chronique of Philip Mouskat (a.d. 1243), lines 23617–20, is a reference to a king of Fierges, indicating that a fers could be promoted to a king at this early period.
2015 September, Nancy Marie Brown, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 112:This fers mates him in straight lines; this fers mates him at an angle.
Catalan
Adjective
fers
- masculine plural of fer
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *firhwijaz.
Noun
fers
- man
French
Noun
fers m
- plural of fer
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
fers
- second-person singular present active indicative of ferō
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French fers, fiers, nominative of fer, fier, from Latin ferus.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Adjective
fers (plural and weak singular ferse)
- brave, bold
- arrogant, haughty
- fierce, savage
- severe, devastating
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French fierce, from Medieval Latin ferzia, from Persian فرزین (farzin).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
fers (plural ferses)
- queen (chess piece)
Descendants
References
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin versus.
Pronunciation
Noun
fers n
- verse
- sentence, title
Declension
Declension of fers (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
References
Old Irish
Etymology
From Latin versus.
Noun
fers m (genitive ferso or fersa, nominative plural fersai)
- verse
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 137b7
Is he in fers-[s]o ro·gab Ch[i]rine oc techt i mBethil .i. haec requies rl. "Bid fír æm," olsesom, "is sunt bia-sa in eilithri co llae messa."- This is the verse that Jerome sang as he went into Bethlehem, namely, haec requies and so on; “it will indeed be true,” he says: “it is here that I will be in pilgrimage until the Day of Judgement.”
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111d1
Noch ní accam isint saltair in fers n-ísin.- However, we do not see that verse in the Psalter.
Inflection
Masculine u-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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fers
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fersL
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fersaeH, fersai
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Vocative
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fers
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fersL
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fersu
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Accusative
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fersN
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fersL
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fersu
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Genitive
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fersoH, fersaH
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fersoL, fersaL
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fersaeN
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Dative
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fersL
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fersaib
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fersaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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fers
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ḟers
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fers pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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