feil
Pronunciation: [faɪ̯l]
“feil” is a German word. Its 2 meanings in English:
adjective
- venal, capable of being bribed or prostituted
- for sale, vendible, purchasable (now at most predicatively with sein, stehen, and in the compounds below)
Etymology
From Middle High German veile, from Old High German feili (“for sale”), from Proto-West Germanic *failī. Possibly merged with a descendant of Proto-Germanic *falaz, but this is uncertain. Old High German fali is only attested once in a text that uses ai for ei, thus quite plausibly a mere scribal error (regarding also that short a should be umlauted to e). Cognate with Dutch veil. From *falaz…
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