fés

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.

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Noun[edit]

fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)

  1. (derogatory) face, mug

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Middle Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

fés

  1. lip
    • Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38
      faídiud fás fri fés
      empty lamentation with the lips
  2. body hair

Usage notes[edit]

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[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: féas (coarse hair, beard)

Mutation[edit]

Middle 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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*wenso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 413

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Portuguese[edit]

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Noun[edit]

fés f

  1. plural of

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

fés f pl

  1. plural of