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Old English · adjective

fah

Normalised fāh

Part of speech
adjective
IPA
/fɑːx/
Syllables
fɑːx (1 syllable)
Modern English
decoratedfoecolouredguiltycriminaladornedshiningoutlawed

fah1 · adjective

Senses

  1. guilty; criminal

  2. hostile

  3. outlawed

    Ā sċyle ġeong mon wesan ġeōmormōd, heard heortan ġeþōht, swylċe habban sċeal blīþe ġebǣro, ēac þon brēostċeare, sinsorgna ġedreag sȳ æt him sylfum ġelong eal his worulde wyn, sȳ ful wīde fāh feorres folclondes, þæt mīn frēond siteð under stānhliþe, storme behrīmed, wine wēriġmōd, wætre beflōwen on drēorsele.

    May the young man always be sad-minded, stern thought of heart, also shall have blithe bearing, also with breast-sorrow, the band of great-worries would be with him all along his world’s mirth, be he fully outlawed in a far folks-land so that my lover sits under a stone cliff, frost-covered by storm, weary-minded lord, overflown by water in the dreary-hall.

    10th century, The Wife's Lament:

Declension

Strong declension of fah
MasculineFeminineNeuter
Singular
Nominative fāhfāfāh
Accusative fānefānnefāfāh
Genitive fāsfārefārrefās
Dative fāmfāumfārefārrefāmfāum
Instrumental fāfārefārrefā
Plural
Nominative fāfāfā
Accusative fāfāfā
Genitive fārafārrafārafārrafārafārra
Dative fāmfāumfāmfāumfāmfāum
Instrumental fāmfāumfāmfāumfāmfāum
Weak declension of fah
MasculineFeminineNeuter
Singular
Nominative fāfāfā
Accusative fānfānfā
Genitive fānfānfān
Dative fānfānfān
Instrumental fānfānfān
Plural
Nominative fānfānfān
Accusative fānfānfān
Genitive fārafārrafānafārafārrafānafārafārrafāna
Dative fāmfāumfāmfāumfāmfāum
Instrumental fāmfāumfāmfāumfāmfāum

fah2 · adjective

Senses

  1. decorated, coloured, shining, adorned

    weal wundrum hēah, · wyrmlīcum fāh.

    Now a wall stands in the track of dear band, by wonders high, with ophidians adorned.

    Stondeð nū on lāste · lēofre duguþe

Declension

Strong declension of fah
MasculineFeminineNeuter
Singular
Nominative fāhfāhfāh
Accusative fāgnefāgefāh
Genitive fāgesfāgrefāges
Dative fāgumfāgrefāgum
Instrumental fāgefāgrefāge
Plural
Nominative fāgefāgafāgefāh
Accusative fāgefāgafāgefāh
Genitive fāgrafāgrafāgra
Dative fāgumfāgumfāgum
Instrumental fāgumfāgumfāgum
Weak declension of fah
MasculineFeminineNeuter
Singular
Nominative fāgafāgefāge
Accusative fāganfāganfāge
Genitive fāganfāganfāgan
Dative fāganfāganfāgan
Instrumental fāganfāganfāgan
Plural
Nominative fāganfāganfāgan
Accusative fāganfāganfāgan
Genitive fāgrafāgenafāgrafāgenafāgrafāgena
Dative fāgumfāgumfāgum
Instrumental fāgumfāgumfāgum

All forms (22)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz, from Proto-Indo-European *póyḱos; cognate with Old High German fēh, Gothic (filufaihs). 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”).

Descendants

foe

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