feed English · revision 4040

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 725|origins=gem-pro *fōdijaną}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /fiːd/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|feden]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) [[inh|ang|fēdan|t=to nourish, give food to, sustain, foster]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[gem-pro|*fōdijaną|alt=*fodjan]],^(Etymonline) the source also of Old Saxon fōdian, Old Frisian fēda, Dutch voeden, Old High German fuoten, Old Norse fœða and Gothic fōdjan,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) a verb formed from the source of [[food]],^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[ine-pro|*peh₂-|alt=*pa-|t=to feed]].^(Etymonline) The noun is from the verb.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) It is related to [[fodder]] and [[foster]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To give food to: Old English fēdan, about 725 in Genesis A according to Barnhart;^(Barnhart 1988) the OED has about 950.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The spelling feed is first recorded about 1385 and became established after 1550.^(Barnhart 1988) The intransitive sense “to take food, eat” is from the late 14th century,^(Etymonline) and “to supply as food” from 1818.^(Etymonline) The noun, the action of feeding, is from the 1570s,^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and a right to graze from 1573.^(Barnhart 1988) Food for animals is first attested in the 1580s, in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (1588).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) “A sumptuous meal” is colloquial, from 1808,^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and in machinery the supply of raw material, or the mechanism for it, is from 1892.^(Etymonline) ''Feedback'' is from 1920.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 725 – Old English fēdan.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * late 14th century – to eat.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1573 – noun, the right to graze.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1588 – food for animals.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1808 – a large meal.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1892 – the supply of material to a machine.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1920 – ''feedback''.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To give food to; to supply with nourishment.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To give as food: ''fed oats to the horses''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Of animals, to eat.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To supply with what is needed for growth or operation: ''feed a furnace''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To move steadily into a machine, or to channel into something.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To give a cue or line to an actor.^(MW Collegiate)^(COED 2004)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # Food for animals; [[fodder]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # ''(informal)'' A large meal.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Material supplied to a machine, or the mechanism that supplies it.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # A broadcast or stream of content supplied to a network or online.^(MW Collegiate)^(COED 2004)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[feedable]]

+ * [[bottle-feed]]

+ * [[bottom-feeding]]

+ * [[cornfed]]

+ * [[drip-feed]]

+ * [[feeder]]

+ * [[feedhole]]

+ * [[feeding]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[food]]

+ * [[fodder]]

+ * [[foster]]

+ * [[feedback]]

+ * [[forage]]

+ * [[pasture]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}