different between faerie vs fae

English

Alternative forms

• færie (archaic, nonstandard)

Etymology

From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.

Noun

faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)

1. Archaic spelling of fairy.
2. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

References

• Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• feriae

Old French

Alternative forms

• faierie

Etymology

fae +? -erie

Noun

faerie f

1. the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)

Derived terms

• French: féerie
  • ? English: féerie
• ? Middle English: fairye
  • English: fairy, fairie, faerie, faery
  • Scots: fairy, faerie, faery

English

Adjective

fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)

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

Noun

fae pl (plural only)

1. Alternative spelling of fey (“fairy folk”)

See also

• faerie

Anagrams

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wai

Interjection

fae

1. woe !

References

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

Scots

Etymology

Lowland Scots variant of frae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/

Preposition

fae

1. (Lowlands Scots) from

Further reading

• “fae” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Welsh

Noun

fae

1. Soft mutation of bae.

Mutation