fés
Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fjɛːs/
- Rhymes: -ɛːs
Noun
fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)
- (derogatory) face, mug
Declension
| n-s | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | fés | fésið | fés | fésin |
| accusative | fés | fésið | fés | fésin |
| dative | fési | fésinu | fésum | fésunum |
| genitive | féss | féssins | fésa | fésanna |
Synonyms
- (face, mug): smetti, trýni
Derived terms
- apafés
- Fésbók
See also
- andlit
- kollur
- snápur
- snjáldur
- ófrýnilegur
Old Irish
Etymology
No exact Celtic cognates, but seemingly related to Middle Irish find (“head hair”), which is hypothetically from Proto-Celtic *wendo- (“(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
- IPA(key): /fʲeːs/
Noun
fés
- lip
- Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38
- faídiud fás fri fés
- empty lamentation with the lips
- Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38
- body hair
Usage notes
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
- fésgorm (“bluebearded”)
- fésléne (“hair-shirt”)
Descendants
- Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)
- ⇒ Middle Irish: fésóc (“beard”)
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*wenso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 413
Further reading
- 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
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfɛ(j)s/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈfɛ(j)ʃ/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)ʃ]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfɛʃ/
- Homophone: Fez
- Hyphenation: fés
Noun
fés f
- plural of fé
Spanish
Noun
fés f pl
- plural of fé