fers

== English == === Alternative forms === ferz === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle English fers, from Old French fierce, from Medieval Latin ferzia, from Classical Persian فَرْزِین (farzīn). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɪəs/ (General American) IPA(key): /fɪɹs/ === Noun === fers (plural ferses) (chess, historical) The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen. (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves one square diagonally. === References === S. Emmerson, A Glossary of Fairy Chess Definitions == Catalan == === Adjective === fers masculine plural of fer == Crimean Gothic == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *firhwijaz. Krause & Slocum argue that the ending may reflect the Proto-Germanic nominative singular ending *-az. === Noun === fers man === References === == French == === Noun === fers m plural of fer === Anagrams === serf == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɛrs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛrs] === 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. The form fuerse, furse possibly indicates a pronunciation such as /føːrs/ or /fyːrs/, with rounding of /eː/ due to the surrounding /f/ and /r/. ==== Alternative forms ==== feers, ferce, ferse, fiers, fierse, firs, fyers, fyerse fuerse, furse (Lancashire); frese (Rutland) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /feːrs/ ==== Adjective ==== fers (plural and weak singular ferse) brave, bold arrogant, haughty fierce, savage severe, devastating ===== Derived terms ===== fersly fersnesse ===== Descendants ===== English: fierce Yola: fearse ===== References ===== “fẹ̄rs, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Old French fierce, from Medieval Latin ferzia, from Persian فرزین (farzin). ==== Alternative forms ==== ffers ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /feːrs/ ==== Noun ==== fers (plural ferses) queen (chess piece) or predecessor thereof ===== Descendants ===== → English: fers, ferz ===== References ===== “fẹ̄rs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. == Old English == === Alternative forms === færs, fyrs, uers === Etymology === From Latin versus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fers/, [ferˠs] === Noun === fers n verse sentence, title ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== bēodfers (“song or hymn sung during mealtime”) fersian (“to make verse”) meterfers (“hexameter”) === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fers”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. == 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 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 ==== Inflection ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fers”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language