fey

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. (archaic, dialectal, poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
2. (obsolete) Dying; dead.
3. (Ireland, Scotland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
4. Overrefined, affected.
5. Strange or otherworldly.
6. Spellbound.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A fairy.
2. (countable, uncountable) Fairy folk collectively.

Noun

Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).

Verb

To cleanse.

Concepts

envoûté

magique

🪄

fasciné

illumin

illuminé

magnétisé

Synonymes

elfin

touched

enrapt

entranced

fairylike

hypnotized

magic

🪄

mesmerized

rapt

transfixed

doomed

whimsical

eccentric

Traductions

lezioso

çatlak

kaçık

sevimli

narin

ince

mesmerisiert

todgeweiht

durchstochen

magico

🪄

rapito

affascinato

ammaliato

ipnotizzato

hypnotisiert

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/feɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: fey

Hérité de ancien anglais: fǣġe

Appartenant à Old Saxon: fēgi

Appartenant à néerlandais: veeg

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: feigi

Appartenant à allemand: feige

Appartenant à vieux norrois: feigr

Appartenant à islandais: feigur

Appartenant à ancien anglais: fāh

Hérité de moyen anglais: faie

In summary

From Middle English feye (“fated to die”), from Old English fǣġe (“doomed to die, timid”), from Proto-West Germanic *faigī, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (“cowardly, wicked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk- (“ill-meaning, bad”).
Akin to Old Saxon fēgi, whence Dutch veeg (“doomed, near death”), Old High German feigi (“appointed for death, ungodly”) whence German feige (“cowardly”), Old Norse feigr (“doomed”) whence the Icelandic feigur (“doomed to die”), Old English fāh (“outlawed, hostile”). More at foe.