Masculine

Feind

Meaning

enemy, fiend, foe (male or of unspecified gender)

Opposite of
Freund
Frequency

B1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

find

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/faɪ̯nt/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German vīant, from Old High German fīand, fīant, from Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz. Cognate to Low German Feend, Fiend, Icelandic fjandi, Dutch vijand, English fiend, Danish fjende, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fijands), Yiddish פֿײַנד (faynd).

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