Fere vs Yfere - What's the difference?
fere | yfere |
A companion, comrade or friend.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
*:they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys .
(label) A spouse; an animal's mate.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere .
*1830 , , ‘
*:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
(obsolete, poetic) Together.
*c. 1385 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Troilus and Criseyde , II:
:Of this and that they pleide and gonnen wade / In many an vnkouth, gladde, and depe matere, / As frendes doon whan thei ben mette y-fere [...].
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:So goodly all agreed they forth yfere did ryde.
As a noun fere
is a companion, comrade or friend.As an adjective fere
is fierce.As an adverb yfere is
together.fere
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).Alternative forms
* pheerNoun
(en noun)Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’: