different between fah vs faa

English

Etymology

An anglicised spelling of fa.

Noun

fah (plural fahs)

1. (music) Alternative form of fa.

Anagrams

• FHA, HFA, ha'f

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??x/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

Adjective

f?h

1. guilty; criminal
2. hostile
3. outlawed

Declension

Descendants

• English: foe

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz, from Proto-Indo-European *póy?os.

Cognate with Old High German f?h, Gothic ???????????????????? (faihs). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ???????? (poikílos, “multicoloured”).

Adjective

f?h

1. decorated, coloured, shining, adorned

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: fou, fow, fawe, fah
  • Scots: faw

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *fak?, whence also Old English fæc.

Noun

fah n

1. wall

Descendants

• German: Fach

English

Noun

faa (plural faas)

1. The letter ? in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• A.A.F., AAF, AFA

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• faahe

Etymology

From Old High German f?han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhan?. Compare German fahen, fangen, Dutch vangen, English fang, Icelandic fá.

Verb

faa

1. (Uri) to catch

Conjugation

Strong:

Mixed:

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 86.

Jamamadí

Noun

faa

1. (Banawá) water

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Middle English

Noun

faa

1. Alternative form of fo

Swahili

Etymology

Of Bantu origin.

Pronunciation

Verb

-faa (infinitive kufaa)

1. to fit
2. to be suitable or useful

   Synonym: halisi

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Nominal derivations:
  • kifaa

Woleaian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

faa

1. four