fey

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From Middle English fey (fated to die), from Old English fǣge (doomed to die, timid), from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (cowardly, wicked), from Proto-Indo-European *pAik-, *pAig- (ill-meaning, bad). Akin to Old Saxon fēgi whence Dutch veeg (doomed, near death), Old High German feigi (appointed for death, ungodly) whence German feige (cowardly), Old Norse feigr (doomed) whence the Icelandic feigur (doomed to die), Old English fāh (outlawed, hostile). More at foe.

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fey (comparative more fey, superlative most fey)

  1. Magical or fairylike.
  2. Strange or otherworldly.
  3. Spellbound.
  4. (dialectal or archaic) About to die; fated; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
  5. (obsolete) Dying; dead.

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fey (uncountable)

  1. Fairy folk collectively.

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fey (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. Third-person singular personal pronoun. he, she, it.

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fey (plural feys)

  1. a premonition of death

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fey (plural feys)

  1. fairy

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