different between fah vs faw

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Onomatopoetic.

Interjection

faw

1. Alternative form of faugh

Synonyms

• (disgust): bleah, eww, ick, pooh, uck; see also Thesaurus:yuck
• (contempt): feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah

Etymology 2

Phonetic rendering of for.

Preposition

faw

1. Pronunciation spelling of for; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
   • 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, Gutenberg eBook #10234,

     “ […] Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin? at me faw?”

Etymology 3

From the surname Faa.

Noun

faw (plural faws)

1. A gypsy.

Anagrams

• FWA, WAF

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English fawe, fa?e, from Old English f?g, f?h (“coloured; stained; dyed; tinged; shining; variegated”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (“coloured; motley”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“to paint; mark; colour”).

Adjective

faw (comparative mair faw, superlative maist faw)

1. Of various colours; variegated