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faerie

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

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sidhe

English

Alternative forms

  • Sidhe

Etymology

From Irish; see Sidhe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?i?/
  • Homophones: she, Xi

Noun

sidhe (plural sidhe)

  1. A supernatural creature of Irish and Scottish folklore, living in Sidhe; a fairy. [From 1899, Yeats]

Related terms

  • banshee

Anagrams

  • Heids, Ihdes, deshi, hides, shide, shied

Irish

Noun

sidhe m (genitive singular sidhe, nominative plural sidhthe)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sí (fairy mound)

Mutation

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