PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No borrowing is established. Bosworth–Toller presents Gothic, Old High German, and Old Icelandic comparisons, while Kroonen reconstructs their Germanic verbal ancestor.
/ˈfeːo.ɣɑn/ · Old English verb
An Old English verb meaning hate or persecute, recorded as FEÓGAN, feógean, fiógan, contracted feón and fión, with participle feógende and a broad present-and-past paradigm. Bosworth–Toller supplies examples whose objects include crimes, evil ways, law, peace, a temple, friends, and people. The verb continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *fi(j)ēn-. Its active-participial formation lexicalized prehistorically as the enemy noun behind Old English fēond and modern fiend, but the verb, participle, and noun are not one interchangeable category.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Presents collateral Germanic forms.
Etymology: Old High German, Gothic, and Icelandic comparisonsSupplies the inherited comparative ancestor.
p. 140, reconstructed Germanic verbThe graph uses inheritance from *fi(j)ēn-, not borrowing from Gothic.