fæ

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See also: fae, FAE, faʻe, faʻē, fä, fåe, Appendix:Variations of "fa", and Appendix:Variations of "fe"

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse fé (“cattle, property”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu, cognate with Norwegian Bokmål fe, Swedish fä, English fee, Dutch vee, and German Vieh. The Germanic noun goes back to Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“livestock”), cf. Latin pecū (“farm animals”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fæ n (singular definite fæet, plural indefinite fæ)

  1. fool, blockhead
  2. (dated) livestock

Declension

Declension of fæ
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fæ fæet fæ fæene
genitive fæs fæets fæs fæenes

Derived terms

Further reading

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse fé (“cattle, sheep; property, money”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fæ n (genitive singular fíggjar, uncountable)

  1. cattle, livestock
  2. riches, richness, property, goods, money

Declension

n34 singular
indefinite definite
nominative fæ fæið
accusative fæ fæið
dative fæ, fæi fænum
genitive fíggjar fíggjarsins

Synonyms

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

See fá.

Pronunciation

Verb

fæ

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fá

Ligurian

Verb

fæ

  1. inflection of fâ:
    1. second-person singular/second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural present subjunctive
    3. second-person plural imperative
  2. (obsolete) inflection of fâ:
    1. second-person singular future indicative
    2. first-person singular/third-person singular present conditional

Old Norse

Verb

fæ

  1. first-person singular present active indicative of fá
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