fédan

[Mod E FEED ← Prot-Germ *fōdjan (← *fōd- “food”); Goth fōdjan; O Fris fōdia; O Sax fōdian; Dt voeden; OHG fuoten; Icel fœða; Dan føde; Sw föda ← Indo-Europ *pāt-, *pā-, *pə- “to feed; to protect”; Sanskr pā́ti “to protect; to pasture, tend”; Avest pā- “to protect”; Anc Gr πατέομαι “to eat”; Lat pāscere “to pasture, shepherd; to feed”; O Slav пасти “to pasture; to feed”(Russ пасти)]

4.2.1 (a)

(a) with a short root vowel

I class	infinitive	past tense singular
to plough	erian	erede
to perform, commit	fremman	fremede

(b) with a long root vowel

I class	infinitive	past tense singular
to feed	fédan	fédde
to keep, observe	cépan	cépte
to send	sendan	sende