fae

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See also: FAE, faʻe, faʻē, , fåe, and

English

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Adjective

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fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)

  1. Alternative spelling of fey (magical, fairylike)

Noun

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fae (countable and uncountable, plural fae or faes)

  1. Alternative spelling of fey (fairy folk)

Pronoun

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fae (oblique fae, possessive adjective faer, possessive pronoun faers, reflexive faerself)

  1. (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[1], 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[2], 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.

See also

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Anagrams

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Asturian

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Verb

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fae

  1. Alternative form of fai

Old Irish

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Etymology

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PIE word
*wáy

From Proto-Celtic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.

Interjection

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fae

  1. woe!

References

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Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

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Etymology

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From ciumăfaie.

Noun

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fae f (uncountable)

  1. jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)

Declension

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References

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  • fae in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scots

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Etymology

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Lowland Scots variant of frae.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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fae

  1. (Lowlands Scots) from
    Whaur are ye fae?Where are you from?

Further reading

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Welsh

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Noun

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fae

  1. Soft mutation of bae.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bae fae mae unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Makian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fae

  1. (transitive) to feed

Usage notes

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This term may or may not specifically refer to feeding children.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of fae (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tafae mafae afae
2nd person nafae fafae
3rd person inanimate ifae dafae
animate
imperative nafae, fae fafae, fae

Alternative forms

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References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics
  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[4], Pacific linguistics