" felt "

[Noun]  | "felt" | \ ˈfelt \

1: a cloth made of wool and fur often mixed with natural or synthetic fibers through the action of heat, moisture, chemicals, and pressure

2: a firm woven cloth of wool or cotton heavily napped and shrunk

3: an article made of felt

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English felt, felte, feelte, going back to Old English felt (only in glosses), going back to West Germanic *felt-, *filt-, probably from a neuter s-stem paradigm *feltaz-/*filtiz- (whence also Old Saxon filt "coarse woolen cloth, blanket," Middle Dutch vilt, vilte, velt "felt," Old High German filz "coarse woolen cloth, felt cover"), of uncertain origin;

  * Note : Germanic *feltaz- "felt" has traditionally been taken as an e-grade ablaut derivative corresponding to o-grade in Old High German falzan, felzan "to inset grooves in a sword blade," falzunga "joint, juncture," continued in Middle High German by givalzen "damaged, knocked or chopped off," velzen "to inlay (gemstones)," valz "mating of birds, channel in a sword blade, middle of a double-edged blade (where two pieces are joined), groove separating the back and cover of a bookbinding." Outside German the only apparent Germanic verbal cognate is modern East Frisian falten "to break down flax fiber," and falte "tool used to soften flax." (See A. Lloyd and R. Lühr, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band 3, pp. 44-45.) The original meaning of this verb is taken to have been "to strike, beat," with beating taken to be part of the felt-making process. Another likely nominal derivative of this verb is contained in a word for "anvil" in West Germanic: Old English anfealt, Old High German anafalz (with *falt-) alongside Old English anefilt, anefilte, Middle Dutch aenvilte, anevilte (with *feltja-) (see: {anvil|anvil}). Germanic *felt-, *falt- has been further connected to a presumed Indo-European *pel-d-, *pol-d-, from which also allegedly descends Latin pellere "to beat against, push, strike." However, this reconstruction of pellere has more recently been disfavored on both phonetic and semantic grounds—see: {pulse:1|pulse:1}. Also of relevance to Germanic *feltaz- is the Slavic etymon represented by Old Russian/Russian Church Slavic pŭlstĭ "felt, felt rug," Russian polst' "felt" (now largely superseded by vójlok, of Turkic origin), Serbian (regional) pȕst, Slovene pôlst, Czech plst, Polish pilść; for pre-Slavic the etymon has been reconstructed as *pl̥d-ti "act of pounding, something pounded" (see: C. Michiel Driessen, "Towards an Indo-European Term for 'felt'," Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol. 32 [2004], pp. 25-42). Though the relationship is suggestive, a common etymon for "felt" and definite connections to an Indo-European verbal root are still lacking. See also {pileus|pileus}.;

[Noun]  | "felt-tip" | \ ˈfel(t)-ˌtip \

1: a pen having a writing point made of felt

Origin: 1956 ;

[Noun]  | "felt-tip pen" 

1: a pen that has a writing point made of felt

[Noun]  | "oat" | \ ˈōt \

1: any of several grasses (genus Avena); especially : a widely cultivated cereal grass (A. sativa)

2: a crop or plot of the oat; also : the seed of an oat —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction

3: a reed instrument made of an oat straw

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English ote "the grain of the oat plant, the plant itself," going back to Old English āte (weak feminine noun), of uncertain origin;

  * Note : Old English āte has been compared with regional Dutch aate, oote "wild oats" (West and Zeeland Flanders), West Frisian and Groningen Dutch oat. (These contrast with Dutch haver, denoting cultivated oats, a reflex of the Common Germanic word for the grain.) Michiel de Vaan, in an addenda to the online etymologiebank.nl, believes that the Flanders words are semantic extensions of regional aat "food," of general Germanic origin (see: {eat:2|eat:2}), though this hypothesis would scarcely explain the Old English word. Jan de Vries (Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek, Brill, 1971) hypothesizes that the Low Country words may have been borrowed from English.;

[Verb]  | "felt" 

1: to make out of or cover with felt

2: to cause to adhere and mat together

3: to make into felt or a similar substance

Origin: 1563 ;

[Verb]  | "feel" | \ ˈfēl \

1: to handle or touch in order to examine, test, or explore some quality

2: to perceive by a physical sensation coming from discrete end organs (as of the skin or muscles)

3: to undergo passive experience of

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan; akin to Old High German fuolen to feel, Latin palpare to caress;

[Verb]  | "feel up" 

1: to touch or fondle (someone) for sexual pleasure

Origin: 1926 ;

[Adjective]  | "sor*ry" | \ ˈsär-ē \

1: feeling sorrow or sympathy

2: feeling regret or penitence —used to express polite regret —used to introduce disappointing or bad news in a polite way —used as an apology for a minor fault or offense

3: mournful, sad

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English sory, from Old English sārig, from sār sore;

[Phrasal verb]  | "feel for" 

1: to search for (something) by reaching or touching usually with the fingers

2: to have sympathy or pity for (someone)

[Verb]  | "felt" 

[Verb]  | "feel" 

[Verb]  | "feel (for)" 

[Verb]  | "felt (out)" 

[Verb]  | "felt up" 

[Phrase]  | "felt like" 

[Phrase]  | "feel like"