feud

Meanings

1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
2. A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
3. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

1. To carry on a feud.

1. An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.

Etymology

Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”). Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).