feud

Meanings

Noun

• A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
• A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
• A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
• An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.

Verb

• To carry on a feud.

Related

Similar words

• fee
• fief

Origin

• From northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Old High German fehida, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-. Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo was directly inherited from Proto-Germanic *faihiþō, and is cognate to Modern German Fehde, Dutch vete, Danish fejde, and Swedish fejd.
• From Medieval Latin feudum. fee, and fief.