fif

fif

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Faifi language.

From German Pfiff (“whistling sound”).

fif n (singular definite fiffet, plural indefinite fif)

1. trick (clever way of doing something that makes it easier to reach a goal)

   Synonyms: fidus, kneb, trick

Clipping of fifille or fifi.

• IPA^(key): /fif/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [fɪf]

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Agen)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

fif m (plural fifs)

1. (Quebec, slang, derogatory) an effeminate male homosexual; poof; faggot

• tapette

• “fif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• fiiw (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring)

From Old Frisian fīf.

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [fɪf]

fif

1. (Sylt) five

• vīf

From Proto-West Germanic *fimf.

• IPA^(key): /fiːf/, /fĩːf/

fīf

1. five

• Middle Dutch: vijf
  • Dutch: vijf
    • Afrikaans: vyf
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: faifu, fefu
    • Javindo: fijf
    • Jersey Dutch: vāif
    • Negerhollands: fyf, fev, veif
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: faif
    • Sranan Tongo: feifi
      • Aukan: feifi
    • → Trió: peihpë
  • Limburgish: vief

From Proto-West Germanic *fimf.

• IPA^(key): /fiːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf

fīf

1. five
   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     Ond on þone ylcan dæġ Crīst ġerēorde fīf þūsenda wera of fīf hlāfum ond of twām fisċum, ēac wīfum ond ċildum, þāra wæs unġerīm, ond þāra hlāfġebroca wæs tō lāfe twelf binna fulle.

     And on the same day, Christ fed five thousand men and numerous women and children with five loaves of bread and two fishes, and the remaining fragments of bread filled twelve baskets.

• This numeral was sometimes inflected for case, but could also be indeclinable.

• fīffeald
• fīftiġ

• fīfta

• Middle English: fyf, fif, fife, vif
  • English: five
  • Middle Scots: fyfe, fyve, fywe
    • Scots: five
  • Yola: veeve

From Proto-West Germanic *fimf. Cognates include Old English fīf, Old Saxon fīf and Old Dutch vīf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːf/

fīf

1. five

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: fiiw

  Helgoland: fiuw

  Sylt: fif

• Saterland Frisian: fieuw
• West Frisian: fiif

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

From Proto-West Germanic *fimf.

• IPA^(key): /fiːf/, /fĩːf/

fīf

1. five

• Middle Low German: vîf
  • Low German: fief
    • German Low German: fief, fiew, fiev
  • Plautdietsch: fief