CHAT: ETYM-CHAT: fees and cattle (was: *oy vey*)

Hello,

> > > That _vee_ is suspiciously similar to English
> > > "fee", which's Swedish cognate _fä_ means
> > > "livestock".
AFAIR its OHG cognate is _feoh_ 'cattle' and by extension the Old
Germanic term was 'money'... It ended as 'fee' in the sense 'payment for
fief' > 'payment' in English via French.

Pavel