felawe

• fela, felaȝe, felaw, fele, fellowe, felow, felowe, ffelawe, ffelow
• felage, felawȝe, feolahe, feolauwe (Early Middle English)
• felle (Essex); velaghe, velaȝe (Kent); felaghe (Northern, Northwest Midland); falow, fallow (Early Scots)

Inherited from Old English fēolaga, from Old Norse félagi; compare fe and lawe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛlau̯(ə)/, /ˈfɛlɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈfeː-/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛlaː/, /ˈfɛlə/ (with reduced vowel)

felawe (plural felawes)

1. A partner or associate; one linked with others:
   1. A companion or friend (especially if close)
   2. A colleague or collaborator; one who shares a profession or goal.
   3. A fellow member of an organisation (especially of equals)
   4. A fellow criminal, citizen, coreligionist, or reveler.
2. An equivalent or counterpart to someone or something:
   1. A peer or equal; one who is equal to another.
   2. An adversary or foe in combat.
   3. (rare) A sexual or marital partner (of a human or animal)
3. An anima or thing belonging to a group or set.
4. An term of address towards a man of lower social status (either friendly or insulting)
5. (rare) A man of low societal or moral status.
6. (rare) A mediator or intermediary.

• English: fellow, fella, feller
• Middle Scots: fallow, falou, falow, fallo, follow, fellow (Anglicised)
  • Scots: fallae, fallow, falla, filla, fulla
• Yola: vellas (plural)

• “fē̆lau(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 August 2019.
• “fellow, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “fallow, falow, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.