fés

Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.

• IPA^(key): /fjɛːs/
• Rhymes: -ɛːs

fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)

1. (derogatory) face, mug

• (face, mug): smetti, trýni

• apafés
• Fésbók

• andlit
• kollur
• snápur
• snjáldur
• ófrýnilegur

Borrowed from Dutch feest (“party; feast; celebration”), from Middle Dutch fêeste, from Old French feste, from Latin fēstum.

fés

1. (Surinamese) party
2. (Surinamese) feast
3. (Surinamese) celebration

No exact Celtic cognates, but seemingly related to find (“head hair”), which is hypothetically from Proto-Celtic *wendom (“(single) hair”); thus, from Proto-Celtic *wenso-,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ-so- (“~facial hair”), from the root *wendʰ-, and distantly cognate with Old Prussian wanso (“first beard”), Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ (“moustache”), Ancient Greek ἴονθος (íonthos, “downy hair, first beard; root of hair; eruption on the face, acne”) (if earlier *ϝί-ϝονθος (*wí-wonthos)), and the first element of Old High German wint-brāwa, Middle Dutch wint-brauwe (“eyelash”) (Proto-West Germanic *windabrāwu).

• IPA^(key): /ɸʲeːs/

fés

1. lip
   • Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38

     faídiud fás fri fés

     empty lamentation with the lips

2. body hair

Neither sense is sufficiently well attested to permit either gender or inflection type to be determined. The Modern Irish descendant, however, is a masculine o-stem.

• fésgorm (“bluebearded”)
• fésléne (“hair-shirt”)
• fésóc (“beard”)

• Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fés (‘lip’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fés (‘body hair’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• Homophone: Fez
• Hyphenation: fés

fés f

1. plural of fé

fés f pl

1. plural of fé