fah
See also: faħ
Translingual
editSymbol
editfah
See also
editEnglish
editEtymology 1
editAn anglicised spelling of fa.
Noun
editfah (plural fahs)
Etymology 2
editInterjection
editfah
- Alternative form of faugh
- 1957, Henry W. Coray, Son of Tears, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 14:
- He leaned against the fence, pulled a pear from his tunic and bit into it. His face puckered. "No good?" Alypius said. Augustine spat out the pieces. "Fah!" he said.
Etymology 3
editAdverb
editfah
Anagrams
editOld English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.
Adjective
editfāh
Declension
editDeclension of fāh — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | fāh | fā | fāh |
Accusative | fāne, fānne | fā | fāh |
Genitive | fās | fāre, fārre | fās |
Dative | fām, fāum | fāre, fārre | fām, fāum |
Instrumental | fā | fāre, fārre | fā |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | fā | fā | fā |
Accusative | fā | fā | fā |
Genitive | fāra, fārra | fāra, fārra | fāra, fārra |
Dative | fām, fāum | fām, fāum | fām, fāum |
Instrumental | fām, fāum | fām, fāum | fām, fāum |
Declension of fāh — Weak
Descendants
edit- Middle English: fo, foo, fa (Early Middle English)
- English: foe (obsolete as an adjective)
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz, from Proto-Indo-European *póyḱos; cognate with Old High German fēh, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃 (faihs). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ποικίλος (poikílos, “multicoloured”).
The inflected stem fāg- may be because this word ultimately reflects a Proto-Germanic variant *faigaz; alternatively, it may be due to analogy with other adjectives with an alternation between [x] and [ɣ], such as smēag, smēah (“creeping, subtle”).
Alternative forms
editAdjective
editfāh
Declension
editDeclension of fāh — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | fāh | fāh | fāh |
Accusative | fāgne | fāge | fāh |
Genitive | fāges | fāgre | fāges |
Dative | fāgum | fāgre | fāgum |
Instrumental | fāge | fāgre | fāge |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | fāge | fāga, fāge | fāh |
Accusative | fāge | fāga, fāge | fāh |
Genitive | fāgra | fāgra | fāgra |
Dative | fāgum | fāgum | fāgum |
Instrumental | fāgum | fāgum | fāgum |
Declension of fāh — Weak
Derived terms
editDescendants
editOld High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką, whence also Old English fæc.
Noun
editfah n
Descendants
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