different between fey vs gey

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: fay

Alternative forms

• fay

Etymology 1

From Middle English fey (“fated to die”), from Old English f??e (“doomed to die, timid”), from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (“cowardly, wicked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk-, *peyg- (“ill-meaning, bad”).

Akin to Old Saxon f?gi whence Dutch veeg (“doomed, near death”), Old High German feigi (“appointed for death, ungodly”) whence German feige (“cowardly”), Old Norse feigr (“doomed”) whence the Icelandic feigur (“doomed to die”), Old English f?h (“outlawed, hostile”). More at foe.

Adjective

fey (comparative more fey, superlative most fey)

1. (dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
   • 1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion:

     Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let those that cursed my name, curse me still, and whine their way back to the cages of the Valar! Let the ships burn!”

   • 1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:

     Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.

2. (obsolete) Dying; dead.
3. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
4. Overrefined, affected.
5. Strange or otherworldly.
6. Spellbound.

Derived terms

• feydom

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.

Adjective

fey (comparative more fey, superlative most fey)

1. Magical or fairylike.

Translations

Noun

fey pl (plural only)

1. Fairy folk collectively.

Synonyms

• See fairy

See also

• fay
• fae

Anagrams

• Fye, fye

Mapudungun

Pronoun

fey (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. Third-person singular personal pronoun. he, she, it.

See also

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English f??e, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz.

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) fæie, væie, fæy, fei?e, vai?e, feaye
• feye, fay, faie, veie, veye, faye, fei, vey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?i?(?)/
• (Southern ME) IPA^(key): /?v?i?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?i?(?)

Adjective

fey

2. Marked, fated for, or destined for death; doomed.
3. Approaching or near one's deathbed; about to pass away.
4. (rare) Tending to cause or leading to death; dangerous.
5. (rare) Having bad luck; frowned upon by fate or fortune.
6. (rare) Weak, afflicted, or vulnerable.

Descendants

• English: fey, fay
• Scots: fey

References

• “fei(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French feie (modern French foie), from Latin f?c?tum.

Alternative forms

• fee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?i?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?i?(?)

Noun

fey

2. (rare) The liver as used in cooking.

References

• “fei, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.

Scots

Noun

fey (plural feys)

1. a premonition of death

Adjective

fey

1. possessing second sight, premonitory

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fej/

Noun

fey (nominative plural feys)

1. fairy

Declension

English

Etymology

Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.

Adverb

gey (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Very. [from 17th c.]
   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.207:

     I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.

   • 2001, David Thomson, The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk, Canongate Books, p.213:

     But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.

Adjective

gey (comparative geyer, superlative geyest)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Fairly good; considerable. [from 18th c.]
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:

     They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.

Anagrams

• Egy., yeg

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From English gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ej/

Noun

gey (definite accusative geyi, plural geyl?r)

1. A gay, a homosexual male.

   Synonym: homoseksual

Declension

Related terms

• götv?r?n (offensive). See more related terms there.

Manx

Noun

gey m

1. Eclipsed form of key.

Mutation

Scots

Alternative forms

• gye

Etymology

Alteration of English gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?/, /??i/

Adverb

gey (not comparable)

1. very
2. quite

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?/

Noun

gey (definite accusative geyi, plural geyler)

1. A gay, a homosexual male.

Declension

Synonyms

• e?cinsel
• homoseksüel