fae
English
Adjective
fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)
- Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”)
Pronoun
fae (oblique fae, possessive adjective faer, possessive pronoun faers, reflexive faerself)
- (rare, nonstandard, neologism) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- 2016 September 22, Kim Zarzour, “Language Matters”, in Parkdale Villager, Parkdale, Toronto, ON, page 15:
- Vandikas' parents, for example, haven't yet fully embraced the concept. Faer mother once asked faer to help her understand how fae would like her to talk about faer. Fae was encouraged, but faer mother's use of the pronouns didn't last – maybe, fae said, because it was such a foreign concept to the older generation, "so I just said to myself, she's my mom, I'll deal with it."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fae.
See also
Old Irish
References
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian
Etymology
From ciumăfaie.
Declension
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References
- fae in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Scots
Etymology
Lowland Scots variant of frae.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feː/
Further reading
- “fae” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Welsh
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɸa.e/
Usage notes
This term may or may not specifically refer to feeding children.
Conjugation
Conjugation of fae (action verb) | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tafae | mafae | afae | |
2nd person | nafae | fafae | ||
3rd person | inanimate | ifae | dafae | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nafae, fae | fafae, fae |
Alternative forms
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