# fae
## English
### Adjective

fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)
* Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”)

### Noun

fae (countable and uncountable, plural fae or faes)
* Alternative spelling of fey (“fairy folk”)
** 2024, Ana Bidault, Hannah Konetzki, Paule Ledesma, Vera Ma, Eeva Nikunen, Jenna Stark, “Color Happily Ever After”, in Romantasy: A Coloring Book, [Garden City, N.Y.]: Dover Publications, →ISBN, back cover:The perfect companion to your favorite book series, this coloring book filled with fire-breathing dragons, dagger-wielding warriors, and fierce and lovely fae will make all your romantasies come true.

### 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."
** 2022, Novae Caelum, The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics - Season One‎, unnumbered page:Fae had decked faerself in a modest amount of cheap jewelry, faer makeup inexpertly applied.
** 2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists‎, page 24:Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fae.

#### Derived terms

* faeling
* genderfae

### See also

* faerie

### Anagrams

* AFE, EAF, AEF, A.E.F., FEA, EFA, A. E. F.

## Asturian
### Verb

fae
* Alternative form of fai

## Old Irish
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *wáy
From Proto-Celtic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.

### Interjection

fae
* woe!

### References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Romanian
### Etymology

From ciumăfaie.

### Noun

fae f (uncountable)
* jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)

#### 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: /feː/

### Preposition

fae
* (Lowlands Scots) from
    Whaur are ye fae? ― Where are you from?

### Further reading

* “fae”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Welsh
### Noun

fae
* Soft mutation of bae.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɸa.e/

### Verb

fae
* (transitive) to feed

#### Usage notes

This term may or may not specifically refer to feeding children.

#### Alternative forms

* faae

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
* James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics