# fay
## Translingual
### Symbol

fay
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southwestern Fars.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Southwestern Fars terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: fā, IPA: /feɪ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophone: fey
* Rhymes: -eɪ

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Verb

fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)
* (obsolete) To fit.
* (shipbuilding, 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.
** Model Shipbuilders, 2010:
    I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
* (shipbuilding, intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
* (obsolete) To fadge.

##### Synonyms

* (to join or unite closely): affix, attach, put together; see also Thesaurus:join

##### Derived terms

* faying surface

##### Translations
#### Adjective

fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
* Fitted closely together.
** US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
    Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

fay (plural fays)
* A fairy.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].

##### Synonyms

* See fairy

##### Derived terms

* faydom

##### Translations
#### Adjective

fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
* Fairy like.

##### See also

* fey
* fae

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English fegien, fæien (“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.

#### Verb

fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)
* (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

Abbreviation of ofay.

#### Noun

fay (plural fays)
* (US slang) A white person.

##### Translations
#### Adjective

fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
* (US slang) White; white-skinned.
** 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 62:I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* FYA, YAF

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English fāg.

#### Noun

fay
* Alternative form of fou

### Etymology 2

From Old English fǣġe.

#### Adjective

fay
* Alternative form of fey (“marked for death”)

## Nùng
### Etymology

Cognate with Thai ไฟ (fai), Lao ໄຟ (fai).

### Noun

fay
* fire

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French faille.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faɪ/

### Noun

fay (definite accusative fayı, plural faylar)
* (geology) fault
    Kuzey Anadolu Fay Hattı dünyanın en tehlikeli faylarından biridir.The North Anatolian Fault Line is one of the most dangerous faults in the world.

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
fay
faylar
definite accusative
fayı
fayları
dative
faya
faylara
locative
fayda
faylarda
ablative
faydan
faylardan
genitive
fayın
fayların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
fayım
faylarım
2nd singular
fayın
fayların
3rd singular
fayı
fayları
1st plural
fayımız
faylarımız
2nd plural
fayınız
faylarınız
3rd plural
fayları
fayları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
fayımı
faylarımı
2nd singular
fayını
faylarını
3rd singular
fayını
faylarını
1st plural
fayımızı
faylarımızı
2nd plural
fayınızı
faylarınızı
3rd plural
faylarını
faylarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
fayıma
faylarıma
2nd singular
fayına
faylarına
3rd singular
fayına
faylarına
1st plural
fayımıza
faylarımıza
2nd plural
fayınıza
faylarınıza
3rd plural
faylarına
faylarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
fayımda
faylarımda
2nd singular
fayında
faylarında
3rd singular
fayında
faylarında
1st plural
fayımızda
faylarımızda
2nd plural
fayınızda
faylarınızda
3rd plural
faylarında
faylarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
fayımdan
faylarımdan
2nd singular
fayından
faylarından
3rd singular
fayından
faylarından
1st plural
fayımızdan
faylarımızdan
2nd plural
fayınızdan
faylarınızdan
3rd plural
faylarından
faylarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
fayımın
faylarımın
2nd singular
fayının
faylarının
3rd singular
fayının
faylarının
1st plural
fayımızın
faylarımızın
2nd plural
fayınızın
faylarınızın
3rd plural
faylarının
faylarının
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
fayım
faylarım
2nd singular
faysın
faylarsın
3rd singular
fay faydır
faylar faylardır
1st plural
fayız
faylarız
2nd plural
faysınız
faylarsınız
3rd plural
faylar
faylardır :

### References

* “fay”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu