fey

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

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

Noun

1. A fairy.
2. Fairy folk collectively.

Noun

Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”)

Concepts

envoûté

magique

🪄

fasciné

illumin

illuminé

magnétisé

Synonymes

elfin

touched

enrapt

entranced

fairylike

hypnotized

magic

🪄

mesmerized

rapt

transfixed

doomed

whimsical

eccentric

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/feɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English fey (“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.