feal

Meanings

Adjective

• Cosy; clean; neat.
• Comfortable; cosy; safe.
• Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
• faithful, loyal

Adverb

• In a feal manner.

Verb

• To hide.
• To press on, advance.

Noun

• Alternative of fail

Origin

• From Middle English fele, fæle, from Old English fǣle ("faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved"), from Proto-Germanic *failijaz ("true, friendly, familiar, good"), from Proto-Indo-European *pey- ("to adore"). Cognate with Scots feel, feelie, West Frisian feilich ("safe"), Dutch veil ("for-sale"), Dutch veilig ("safe"), German feil ("for-sale"), Latin pīus ("good, dutiful, faithful, devout, pious").
• From Middle English felen, from Old Norse fela ("to hide"), from Proto-Germanic *felhaną ("to conceal, hide, bury, trust, intrude"), from Proto-Indo-European *pele(w)-, *plē(w)-. Cognate with Old High German felahan ("to pass, trust, sow"), Old English fēolan ("to cleave, enter, penetrate").
• From Middle English felen ("to come at (one's enemies), advance"), from Old English fēolan ("to cleave, enter, penetrate"), from Proto-Germanic *felhaną.
• Inherited from an unattested Middle English word, borrowed from Old French feal, collateral form of feeil, from Latin fidelis.
• Unknown; see fail#Etymology 2.