NODE / 1183attestedGerman

Feind

TRANSLITERATION FeindPRONUNCIATION /faɪ̯nt/

enemy, adversary, hostile power, enemy force, or determined opponent

DATE: German spelling attested in 1483; modern standard headword
SENSE: enemy opponent modern german
FAMILY: Indo-European / West Germanic
CANONICAL KEY: node:30:feind:attested:sense:enemy-opponent-modern-german

DWB reports this spelling in a 1483 German Bible; the pronunciation is the modern headword pronunciation. Duden documents personal, collective, military, and opponent-of-a-cause uses. Modern tokens are not compositionally equivalent to one who hates, and the grammatical masculine does not force every referent to be male.

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Middle High German · Middle High German · enemy middle high german

vīant

enemy or adversary

SOUND: Middle High German long ī undergoes the later High German diphthongization represented by modern /aɪ̯/; noun capitalization and final spelling standardize as Feind.
MEANING: The inherited enemy or adversary noun remains available for personal, collective, military, and ideological opposition.
CHRONOLOGY: Middle High German through Early New High German into the modern written standard.
SCHOLAR: Dudenredaktion · Wolfgang Pfeifer
CONFIDENCE: established — Both modern dictionaries explicitly give the Middle High German forms as the immediate historical stage; the edge does not assign one day to every spelling or sound transition.

Duden — FeindsupportsHerkunft and grammar

Publishes Middle High German vīnt and vīant as the immediate historical stage behind modern Feind.

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DWDS — Feind, etymology after Wolfgang PfeifersupportsPfeifer etymology: Middle High German vīant, vīent, vīnt and modern Feind

Independently supplies the historical continuation and modern opponent or adversary sense.

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Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm — feind, m.supportsBd. 3, Sp. 1457–1460, headword and historical forms

Documents the modern headword beside Middle High German vîent and vînt.

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