fae - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)
- Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”)
fae (countable and uncountable, plural fae or faes)
- Alternative spelling of fey (“fairy folk”)
fae (oblique fae, possessive adjective faer, possessive pronoun faers, reflexive faerself)
- (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.
fae
- Alternative form of fai
| PIE word |
|---|
| *wáy |
From Proto-Celtic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.
fae
- woe!
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
From ciumăfaie.
fae f (uncountable)
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Please edit the entry and supply |def= and |pl= parameters to the {{ro-noun-f}} template.
- fae in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Lowland Scots variant of frae.
fae
- (Lowlands Scots) from
- Whaur are ye fae? ― Where are you from?
- “fae”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
fae
- Soft mutation of bae.
fae
- (transitive) to feed
This term may or may not specifically refer to feeding children.