fier

See fire.

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.”

• sci-fier (etymologically unrelated)

• 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] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *p(t)erH- (“fern”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfi.ɛɾ]

fíer m (definite fieri)

1. fern

• Fier
• fierajë
• fierishtë
• fierkuqe
• fierore

Borrowed from French fier.

• IPA^(key): /fir/, [fiːr]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: fier
• Rhymes: -ir

fier (comparative fierder, superlative fierst)

1. proud

Declension of fier
uninflected	fier
inflected	fiere
comparative	fierder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		fier	fierder	het fierst het fierste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	fiere	fierdere	fierste
	n. sing.	fier	fierder	fierste
	plural	fiere	fierdere	fierste
definite		fiere	fierdere	fierste
partitive		fiers	fierders	—

• trots

• → Papiamentu: fier (dated)

From Middle High German vür, from Old High German furi, from Proto-West Germanic *furi, from Proto-Germanic *furi.

Compare Luxembourgish fir, German für, English for.

fier

1. (Erzgebirgisch) for

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:

Inherited from Old French fer, from Latin ferus.

• IPA^(key): /fjɛʁ/

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

1. proud, gratified, honoured [(often) with de ‘of someone, something’]

   Il est fier de son fils. ― He is proud of his son.

2. proud, prideful, arrogant

   Synonym: hautain

3. (prenominal) remarkable

• devoir une fière chandelle
• fier comme un paon

• → Dutch: fier
• Louisiana Creole: fyær

Inherited from Old French fier, from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere.

• IPA^(key): /fje/

• Audio; “se fier”:

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fier

1. (reflexive) to trust (someone), to rely (on someone) [with à]

   se fier à quelqu'un ― to rely on someone

• confier
• défier
• méfier
• souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s'y fie

• “fier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Cardinal: fier     Ordinal: fiert

PIE word
*kʷetwóres

Inherited from Central Franconian vier, from Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.^[1]

Cognate with German vier and Luxembourgish véier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːa/
• Rhymes: -iːa
• Syllabification: fier

fier

1. four

   Ich hon fier Menner gesihn.

   I have seen four men.

Derived from English fair.

fier

1. fair
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Aks 27:8:

     an bieli manij fi riich a wan plies niem Fier Ievnz nier Lasiiya toun.

     and we barely managed to reach a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

fier

1. alternative form of figer
2. alternative form of fyr

From Latin fīdō.

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

fier

1. (reflexive, se fier) to trust (someone, something)
   • c. 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

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• fiance

• French: (se) fier

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fier m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fiere)

1. alternative form of fer (“cruel; fierce”)

Chemical element
Fe
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Next: cobalt (Co)

• fer — regional

Inherited from Latin ferrum.

• IPA^(key): /fjer/

• Audio:

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fier n (plural fiare)

1. (uncountable) iron

   Fierul 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) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

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

From Old Frisian fir, fer, from Proto-West Germanic and Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

fier

1. far, distant

Inflection of fier
uninflected	fier
inflected	fiere
comparative	fierder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		fier	fierder	it fierst it fierste
indefinite	c. sing.	fiere	fierdere	fierste
	n. sing.	fier	fierder	fierste
	plural	fiere	fierdere	fierste
definite		fiere	fierdere	fierste
partitive		fiers	fierders	—

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

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN