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You can make 6 words from fey according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of fey

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Definitions and meaning of fey

fey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: fay

Alternative forms

• fay

Etymology 1

From Middle English fey (“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”).

Akin to Old Saxon fēgi, 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 fāh (“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.
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 (countable and uncountable, plural fey or feys)

1. (fiction, mysticism) A fairy.
2. (construed as plural) Fairy folk collectively.

Synonyms

• See fairy

See also

• fay
• fae

Anagrams

• Fye, fye

Mapudungun

Pronoun

fey (Raguileo spelling)

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

See also

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English fǣġe, from Proto-West Germanic *faigī, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz.

Alternative forms

• feye, fay, faie, veie, veye, faye, fei, vey
• fæie, væie, fæy, feiȝe, vaiȝe, feaye (Early Middle English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæi̯(ə)/
• (Southern ME) IPA^(key): /ˈvæi̯(ə)/
• Rhymes: -æi̯(ə)

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 fīcātum.

Alternative forms

• fee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæi̯(ə)/
• Rhymes: -æi̯(ə)

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

Etymology

From Middle English fey, from Old English fǣge.

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

Wolof

Etymology

Probably from Upper Guinea Creole, from a conflation of Portuguese pagar (“to pay”) and Portuguese apagar (“to extinguish, to turn off”). In that case cognate with Guinea-Bissau Creole paga.

Pronunciation

Verb

fey

1. to pay
2. to extinguish; to turn off
3. to respond to a greeting

References

• Jean-Léopold Diouf (2003) Dictionnaire wolof-français et français-wolof, Éditions KARTHALA, →ISBN, page 126