fés

See also: fes

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɛːs/
• Rhymes: -ɛːs

Noun

fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)

1. (derogatory) face, mug

Declension

declension of fés

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fés	fésið	fés	fésin
accusative	fés	fésið	fés	fésin
dative	fési	fésinu	fésum	fésunum
genitive	féss	féssins	fésa	fésanna

Synonyms

• (face, mug): smetti, trýni

Derived terms

• apafés
• Fésbók

See also

• andlit
• kollur
• snápur
• snjáldur
• ófrýnilegur

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʲeːs/

Noun

fés

1. lip
   • Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38

     faídiud fás fri fés

     empty lamentation with the lips

2. 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

• fésgorm (“bluebearded”)
• fésléne (“hair-shirt”)

Descendants

• Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)
• ⇒ Middle Irish: fésóc (“beard”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fés	ḟés	fés pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 fés (‘lip’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 fés (‘body hair’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Portuguese

Noun

fés f

1. plural of fé