feist

Meaning

feien

to protect, to shield

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

faiss

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/faɪ̯st/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German veizet, from Old High German feizzit, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, whence also the doublet fett (through Middle Low German).

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