feud

Meaning

Noun

1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
2. A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
3. (obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

Verb

To carry on a feud.

Synonyms

fief

quarrel

enmity

discord

spite

fight

look upon with hatred

contention

grudge

rancour

animosity

feoff

feudatory

difference

disagreeableness

disagreement

disharmony

dispute

dissension

disunion

dudgeon

evil

fee

fray

harm

hatred

higgle

hostility

jar

🫙

liege

malice

manor

rancor

resentment

revenge

rivalry

row

set-to

spar

split

squabble

strife

vendetta

vindictiveness

wrangle

wrangling

back to back

liegeman

discord and hostility

conflict

Translations

Fehde

faida

querelle

feudo

vete

hostilidad

inimitié

έχθρα

rixa

βεντέτα

leengoed

faide

combattere una faida

rijm

hostilitat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fjuːd/

Etymology

Cognate with Old English: fǣhþ

Cognate with German: Fehde

Cognate with Dutch: vete

Cognate with Middle Low German: -

In summary

Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”).
Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).