fæs

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "fas", faes, and FAEs

Danish

Noun

fæs n

  1. indefinite genitive singular of fæ
  2. indefinite genitive plural of fæ

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fas, *fasō. Akin to Old High German faso, Middle Dutch vase.

Pronunciation

Noun

fæs n

  1. fringe

Inflection

Declension of fæs (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative fæs fasu
accusative fæs fasu
genitive fæses fasa
dative fæse fasum

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Middle English: fass, face, vasse, fas, faz
    • English: fas
    • Yola: fash

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*fasa/ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130
  2. ^ “fas, n..”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 29 November 2019.
  3. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fæs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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