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English
Adjective
fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)
- Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”)
Noun
fae (countable and uncountable, plural fae or faes)
- Alternative spelling of fey (“fairy folk”)
Pronoun
fae (oblique fae, possessive adjective faer, possessive pronoun faers, reflexive faerself)
- (rare, nonstandard, neologism) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
2016 September 22, Kim Zarzour, “Language Matters”, in Parkdale Villager, Parkdale, Toronto, ON, page 15:Vandikas' parents, for example, haven't yet fully embraced the concept. Faer mother once asked faer to help her understand how fae would like her to talk about faer. Fae was encouraged, but faer mother's use of the pronouns didn't last – maybe, fae said, because it was such a foreign concept to the older generation, "so I just said to myself, she's my mom, I'll deal with it."
2022, Novae Caelum, The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics - Season One, unnumbered page:Fae had decked faerself in a modest amount of cheap jewelry, faer makeup inexpertly applied.
2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 24:Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fae.
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Anagrams
Asturian
Verb
fae
- Alternative form of fai
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.
Interjection
fae
- woe!
References
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian
Etymology
From ciumăfaie.
Noun
fae f (uncountable)
- jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)
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References
- fae in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Scots
Etymology
Lowland Scots variant of frae.
Pronunciation
Preposition
fae
- (Lowlands Scots) from
- Whaur are ye fae? ― Where are you from?
Further reading
Welsh
Noun
fae
- Soft mutation of bae.
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
West Makian
Pronunciation
Verb
fae
- (transitive) to feed
Usage notes
This term may or may not specifically refer to feeding children.
Conjugation
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics
- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary, Pacific linguistics