fier

English

Pronunciation

See fire.

Noun

fier (plural fiers)

1. Archaic form of fire.
   • 1849, William Strachey, Richard Henry Major, The History of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, page 92:

     They have also divers conjurations: one they made at what tyme they had taken Captain Smyth prisoner, to know, as they reported, if any more of his countrymen would arrive there, and what they intended; the manner of yt Captain Smyth observed to be as followeth : first, soe some as daie was shut in, they kindled a faire great fier in a lone howse, about which assembled seven priests, takinge Captain Smyth by the hand, and appointing him his seat; about the fier they made a kynd of enchanted circle of meale; that done, the chifest priest, attyred as is expressed, gravely began to sing and shake his rattle, solemly rownding and marching about the fier, the rest followed him silently untill his song was done, which they all shutt up with a groane.

   • 2000, Colin G. Calloway, Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England, →ISBN:

     The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.

   • 2012, Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race, →ISBN, page 45:

     The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.”

See also

• sci-fier (etymologically unrelated)

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1989). Oxford University Press. Vol. V. pp. 242-243.

Anagrams

• FIRE, Frie, fire, refi, reif, rief, rife

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *pʰera, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)perHom < *(s)perH- (“to fly”). Compare Proto-Slavic *pero (“feather”), English fern, Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Latvian spā̀rns (“wing”), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, “wing”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *p(t)erH- (“fern”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fier m (definite fieri)

1. fern

Declension

Derived terms

• Fier
• fierajë
• fierishtë
• fierkuqe
• fierore

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fir/,

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fier
• Rhymes: -ir

Adjective

fier (comparative fierder, superlative fierst)

1. proud

Inflection

Synonyms

• trots

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: fier (dated)

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German vür, from Old High German furi, from Proto-West Germanic *furi, from Proto-Germanic *furi.

Compare Luxembourgish fir, German für, English for.

Preposition

fier

1. (Erzgebirgisch) for

Further reading

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French fer, from Latin ferus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɛʁ/

Adjective

fier (feminine fière, masculine plural fiers, feminine plural fières)

1. proud
2. remarkable (in this sense always used before the noun it qualifies)

Synonyms

• hautain

Derived terms

• devoir une fière chandelle
• fier comme un paon

Related terms

Descendants

• → Dutch: fier
• Louisiana Creole: fyær

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French fier, from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fje/

• audio (se fier)

  (file)

Verb

fier

1. (reflexive, se fier à quelqu'un) to trust someone (à), to rely on someone (à)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• confier
• défier
• méfier
• souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s’y fie

Further reading

• “fier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Hunsrik

Etymology

Inherited from Central Franconian vier, from Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

Cognate with German vier and Luxembourgish véier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːɐ/
• Rhymes: -iːɐ
• Hyphenation: fi‧er

Numeral

fier

1. four

   Ich hon fier Menner gesihn.

   I have seen four men.

References

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English fair.

Adjective

fier

1. fair
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Aks 27:8:

     an bieli manij fi riich a wan plies niem Fier Ievnz nier Lasiiya toun.

     and we barely managed to reach a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

Middle English

Noun

fier

1. Alternative form of figer
2. Alternative form of fyr

Old French

Alternative forms

• fïer (diaereses not universally used by scholars of Old French)

Etymology

From Latin fīdō.

Verb

fier

1. (reflexive, se fier) to trust (someone, something)
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Trestuit por lor seignor prioient,
     Qu’an Deu et an lui se fioient

     They all prayed for their master
     In him, and in God they put their trust

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• fiance

Descendants

• French: (se) fier

Romanian

Romanian Wikipedia has an article on:

fier

Wikipedia ^ro

Alternative forms

• fer — regional

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjer/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fier n (plural fiare)

1. (uncountable) iron

   Fier este un metal.

   Iron is a metal.

   Bunica mea are multe oale de fier.

   My grandmother has many iron pots.

2. (countable) tool made of iron

Declension

Derived terms

• înfiera
• fier de călcat
• fier vechi

Related terms

• fierar
• fierătaie
• fieros

References

• fier in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin ferrum. Compare Friulian fiêr.

Noun

fier m

1. iron

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɛːʀ/

Noun

fier m (plural fiers)

1. iron

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian fir, fer, from Proto-West Germanic and Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

Adjective

fier

1. far, distant

Inflection

Further reading

• “fier”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN