fae

See also: FAE, faʻe, faʻē, fä, fåe, and fæ

English

Etymology

From Old French fae, from Medieval Latin fāda. Pronoun use from 2013.

Adjective

fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)

1. Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”).

Noun

fae (countable and uncountable, plural fae or faes)

1. Alternative spelling of fey (“fairy folk”).
   • 2024, Ana Bidault, Hannah Konetzki, Paule Ledesma, Vera Ma, Eeva Nikunen, Jenna Stark, “Color Happily Ever After”, in Romantasy: A Coloring Book, [Garden City, N.Y.]: Dover Publications, →ISBN, back cover:

     The perfect companion to your favorite book series, this coloring book filled with fire-breathing dragons, dagger-wielding warriors, and fierce and lovely fae will make all your romantasies come true.

Pronoun

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fae (oblique and 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, 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, 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.

Derived terms

• faefolk
• faeling
• genderfae

See also

• faerie

References

• “fay”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “fay”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “fay”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• AFE, EAF, AEF, A.E.F., FEA, EFA, A. E. F.

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfae/ [ˈfa.e]
• Rhymes: -ae
• Syllabification: fa‧e

Verb

fae

1. alternative form of fai

Old Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*wáy

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

Interjection

fae

1. woe!

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

From ciumăfaie.

Noun

fae f (uncountable)

1. jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)

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References

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

Scots

Etymology

Variant of frae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feː/

Preposition

fae

1. (especially Northern Scots) from

   Whaur are ye fae? ― Where are you from?

Further reading

• “fae”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Welsh

Noun

fae

1. soft mutation of bae

Mutation

Mutated forms of bae

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bae	fae	mae	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.e/

Verb

fae

1. (transitive) to feed

Usage notes

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

Conjugation

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

• faae

References

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