faix
English
Interjection
faix
- (Ireland) Eye dialect spelling of fecks.
French
Etymology
From Old French fais, from Latin fascis (“bundle, burden”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛ/
Audio (file) - Homophones: fais, fait
Noun
faix m (plural faix)
- (literary or dated) burden, heavy load
Derived terms
- affaisser
- arrière-faix
- portefaix
Related terms
- fasce
Further reading
- “faix”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Iu Mien
Etymology
From Chinese 細 (MC seiH).
Adjective
faix
- small