fey

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

lezioso

magico

🪄

incantato

affascinato

ammaliato

ipnotizzato

rapito

sinonimi

elfin

touched

enrapt

entranced

fairylike

hypnotized

magic

🪄

mesmerized

rapt

transfixed

doomed

whimsical

eccentric

Traduzioni

narin

çatlak

kaçık

sevimli

envoûté

ince

mesmerisiert

todgeweiht

durchstochen

fasciné

illumin

illuminé

magnétisé

geboeid

hypnotisiert

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/feɪ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: fey

Ereditato da inglese antico: fǣġe

Affine Old Saxon: fēgi

Affine olandese: veeg

Affine tedesco antico alto: feigi

Affine tedesco: feige

Affine norse antico: feigr

Affine islandese: feigur

Affine inglese antico: fāh

Ereditato da inglese medio: 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.