fey
Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudiencePossessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
Meaning
7 senses(Ireland, Scotland)Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
Overrefined, affected.
Strange or otherworldly.
не от мира сегоne ot mira sevo
дивнийdyvnyj, неземнийnezemnyj
Spellbound.
зачарованийzačarovanyj
Magical or fairylike.
магічнийmahičnyj, чарівнийčarivnyj
(archaic, dialectal, poetic)About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
обречённыйobrečónnyj
приреченийpryrečenyj, вмираючийvmyrajučyj
(obsolete)Dying; dead.
- slightly insane
- suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 4
By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English feye (“fated to die”), from Old English fǣġe (“doomed to die, timid”),From Middle English feye (“fated to die”), from Old English fǣġe (“doomed to die, timid”), from Proto-West Germanic *faigī, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (“cowardly, wicked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk- (“ill-meaning, bad”).
From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”), from Old French fae, from Medieval Latin fāda. More at fairy.
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Forms
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