fés
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)
- (derogatory) face, mug
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Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Dutch feest (“party; feast; celebration”), from Middle Dutch fêeste, from Old French feste, from Latin fēstum.
Noun edit
fés
Middle Irish edit
Etymology edit
No exact Celtic cognates, but seemingly related to find (“head hair”), which is hypothetically from Proto-Celtic *wendom (“(single) hair”); thus, from Proto-Celtic *wenso-,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ-so- (“~facial hair”), from the root *wendʰ-, and distantly cognate with Old Prussian wanso (“first beard”), Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ (“moustache”), Ancient Greek ἴονθος (íonthos, “downy hair, first beard; root of hair; eruption on the face, acne”) (if earlier *ϝί-ϝονθος (*wí-wonthos)), and the first element of Old High German wint-brāwa, Middle Dutch wint-brauwe (“eyelash”) (Proto-West Germanic *windabrāwu).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fés
Usage notes edit
Neither sense is sufficiently well attested to permit either gender or inflection type to be determined. The Modern Irish descendant, however, is a masculine o-stem.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fés | ḟés | fés pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wenso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 413
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fés (‘lip’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 fés (‘body hair’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Portuguese edit
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fés f
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fés f pl