Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo intercept or catch (a ball) and play it. · To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. · To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. · To answer; to address.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *felþuz Proto-West Germanic *felþu Old English feld Middle English feld English field From Middle English feld, feeld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut). Cognates Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold. Not related to English felt.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*pleth₂-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionfeldenm
- Inherited-form mentionfeldang
- Inherited-form mention*felþugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*felþuzgem-pro · field
- Derivation mention*pleh₂-ine-pro · field, plain
- Cognate mentionfeldsco
- Cognate mentionfialfrr
- Cognate mentionFäildstq
- Cognate mentionfjildfy
- Cognate mentionveldnl
- Cognate mentionfaldwym
- Cognate mentionfältsv · field
- Cognate mentionpeltofi
- Cognate mentionplaturoa-leo
- Cognate mentionplatoes
- Cognate mentionplatca
- Cognate mentionplatfr
- Cognate mentionpratopt
- Cognate mentionpiattoit
- Cognate mention*plattusla
- Cognate mentionπλατύςel
- Cognate mentionflatenm
- Cognate mentionfoldeang
- Cognate mentionfolmang
- Non-cognate comparisonfelten
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"To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.",
"To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.",
"To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.",
"To answer; to address."
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