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Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.
Pronunciation
Noun
fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)
- (derogatory) face, mug
- Synonyms: smetti, trýni
Declension
Declension of fés (neuter)
Derived terms
See also
Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch feest (“party; feast; celebration”), from Middle Dutch fêeste, from Old French feste, from Latin fēstum.
Noun
fés
- (Surinamese) party
- (Surinamese) feast
- (Surinamese) celebration
Middle Irish
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
Noun
fés
- lip
- Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38
faídiud fás fri fés- empty lamentation with the lips
- body hair
Usage notes
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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)
Mutation
Mutation of fés
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| fés |
ḟés |
fés
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
Further reading
- 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
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
fés f
- plural of fé
Spanish
Noun
fés f pl
- plural of fé