פֿיך
פֿי

'cattle'

ETYMOLOGY

{Whence the final /x/? MHG and ENHG had a secondary form viech.]
Gothic faíhu 'movable goods, possessions, cattle', ON fé 'cattle, property, money' (also fær 'sheep'), OE feoh, fioh 'cattle, property, money', English fee, OS fehu 'cattle property', Dutch vee 'cattle', OHG fihu, fehu 'cattle animal, money', MHG vihe, vehe, vich, ENHG vieh, viech, NHG Vieh 'cattle'; from PGmc ✱fehu- 'cattle'; from PIE ✱péḱ-u-; from the root ✱peḱ- 'to pluck wool' (which indicates that the first livestock kept by Indo-Europeans were sheep, not cows).
Related: Sanskrit páśu- 'domestic animal', Latin pecū̆ 'flock, herd', Lithuanian pẽkus 'cattle', Greek πέκος 'fleece'.

WESTERN

Czechia

fīɐx {CZECHIA, Beranek 1936: 66}

CENTRAL

HASIDIC

AMERICA

fiː