fés

See also: fes

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fjɛːs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːs

Noun

fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)

  1. (derogatory) face, mug
    Synonyms: smetti, trýni

Declension

Declension of fés (neuter)
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

Derived terms

See also

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch feest (“party; feast; celebration”), from Middle Dutch fêeste, from Old French feste, from Latin fēstum.

Noun

fés

  1. (Surinamese) party
  2. (Surinamese) feast
  3. (Surinamese) celebration

Middle Irish

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /ɸʲeːs/

Noun

fés

  1. lip
    • Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38
      faídiud fás fri fés
      empty lamentation with the lips
  2. 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”)
  • fésóc (“beard”)

Descendants

  • Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)

Mutation

Mutation of fés
radical lenition nasalization
fés ḟés fés
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wenso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 413

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfɛ(j)s/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)s]

  • Homophone: Fez
  • Hyphenation: fés

Noun

fés f

  1. plural of fé

Spanish

Noun

fés f pl

  1. plural of fé
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