fier

fier (plural fiers)

1. Archaic form of fire.
   • 1849, William Strachey, ‎Richard Henry Major, The History of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, page 92:

     They have also divers conjurations: one they made at what tyme they had taken Captain Smyth prisoner, to know, as they reported, if any more of his countrymen would arrive there, and what they intended; the manner of yt Captain Smyth observed to be as followeth : first, soe some as daie was shut in, they kindled a faire great fier in a lone howse, about which assembled seven priests, takinge Captain Smyth by the hand, and appointing him his seat; about the fier they made a kynd of enchanted circle of meale; that done, the chifest priest, attyred as is expressed, gravely began to sing and shake his rattle, solemly rownding and marching about the fier, the rest followed him silently untill his song was done, which they all shutt up with a groane.

   • 2000, Colin G. Calloway, Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England, →ISBN:

     The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.

   • 2012, Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race, →ISBN, page 45:

     The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.”

• The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1989). Oxford University Press. Vol. V. pp. 242-243.

• FIRE, Frie, fire, refi, reif, rief, rife

From Proto-Albanian *pʰera, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)perHom < *(s)perH- (“to fly”). Compare Proto-Slavic *pero (“feather”), English fern, Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Latvian spā̀rns (“wing”), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, “wing”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfi.ɛɾ]

fier m (definite singular fieri)

1. fern

• fierajë
• fierishtë
• fierkuqe
• fierore

Borrowed from French fier.

• IPA^(key): /fir/, [fiːr]

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• Rhymes: -ir

fier (comparative fierder, superlative fierst)

1. proud

• trots

From Old French fer, from Latin ferus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-.

• IPA^(key): /fjɛʁ/

fier (feminine singular fière, masculine plural fiers, feminine plural fières)

1. proud

• hautain

From Old French fier, from Latin fīdō.

• audio (se fier)

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• IPA^(key): /fje/

fier

1. (reflexive, se fier à quelqu'un) to trust someone (à), to rely on someone (à)

• confier
• défier
• méfier

• “fier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Central Franconian vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /fiːɐ/

fier

1. four

   Ich hon fier Menner gesihn.

   I have seen four men.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

fier

1. Alternative form of figer

• fïer (diaereses not universally used by scholars of Old French)

From Latin fīdō.

fier

1. (reflexive, se fier) to trust (someone, something)
   • circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Trestuit por lor seignor prioient,
     Qu’an Deu et an lui se fioient

     They all prayed for their master
     In him, and in God they put their trust

• fiance

• French: (se) fier

• fer (regional)

From Latin ferrum.

• IPA^(key): /fjer/

fier n (plural fiare)

1. (uncountable) iron

   Fier este un metal.

   Iron is a metal.

   Bunica mea are multe oale de fier.

   My grandmother has many iron pots.

2. (countable) tool made of iron

• înfiera
• fier de călcat
• fier vechi

• fierar
• fierătaie
• fieros

• fier in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Latin ferrum. Compare Friulian fiêr.

fier m

1. iron

From Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

• IPA^(key): /fjɛːʀ/

fier m (plural fiers)

1. iron

fier

1. far, distant

• “fier”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011