Same Germanic base as “food” and sharing a family tree with “foster” and “fodder”!

• 06.072 That fire they fed with leaves
• 08.084 Been feeding none too well of late,
• 09.053 Where the kine and oxen feed!
• 10.016 when we are fed
• 10.037 and fed
• 16.005 How shall you be fed

“feed, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 30 June 2016.

“food, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 30 June 2016.