verb · transitive · rare

fay

fay · fays · fayed · faying

скласти, складати

собрать, составить, собраться с мыслями

zusammenfügen

To join tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that…To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.

/feɪ/

» Morgan le Fay was a powerful sorceress and the half-sister of King Arthur.

Morgana war eine mächtige Zauberin und die Halbschwester König Artus’.

Meaning

5 senses

(transitive)To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
(intransitive)Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
(dialectal)To cleanse; clean out.
(obsolete)To fit, to add.
(obsolete)To fadge.

Examples

1 sentences

Morgan le Fay was a powerful sorceress and the half-sister of King Arthur.
deMorgana war eine mächtige Zauberin und die Halbschwester König Artus’. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Origin

Inherited from Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English fēġan (“to join, unite”), fro

Inherited from Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English fēġan (“to join, unite”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōgijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōgijaną (“to join”), from *fōgō (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Saterland Frisian fougje (“to join, add”), West Frisian foegje (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), German Low German fögen (“to join, add”), German fügen (“to connect”), Old English fōn (“to catch”). More at fang.

Inherited from Middle English feien (“to cleanse”), from Old Norse fægja (“to cleanse, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *fēgijaną (“to decorate, make beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *pōḱ-, *pēḱ- (“to clean, adorn”). Cognate with Swedish feja (“to sweep”), Danish feje (“to sweep”), German fegen (“to cleanse, scour, sweep”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, strike”). More at feague, fake, fair.

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