Old English · adjective
fah
Normalised fāh
- Part of speech
- adjective
- IPA
- /fɑːx/
- Syllables
- fɑːx (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- decoratedfoecolouredguiltycriminaladornedshiningoutlawed
fah1 · adjective
Senses
-
guilty; criminal
-
hostile
-
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
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | |||
| Nominative | fāh | fā | fāh |
| Accusative | fānefānne | fā | fāh |
| Genitive | fās | fārefārre | fās |
| Dative | fāmfāum | fārefārre | fāmfāum |
| Instrumental | fā | fārefārre | fā |
| Plural | |||
| Nominative | fā | fā | fā |
| Accusative | fā | fā | fā |
| Genitive | fārafārra | fārafārra | fārafārra |
| Dative | fāmfāum | fāmfāum | fāmfāum |
| Instrumental | fāmfāum | fāmfāum | fāmfāum |
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | |||
| Nominative | fā | fā | fā |
| Accusative | fān | fān | fā |
| Genitive | fān | fān | fān |
| Dative | fān | fān | fān |
| Instrumental | fān | fān | fān |
| Plural | |||
| Nominative | fān | fān | fān |
| Accusative | fān | fān | fān |
| Genitive | fārafārrafāna | fārafārrafāna | fārafārrafāna |
| Dative | fāmfāum | fāmfāum | fāmfāum |
| Instrumental | fāmfāum | fāmfāum | fāmfāum |
fah2 · adjective
Senses
-
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
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | |||
| Nominative | fāh | fāh | fāh |
| Accusative | fāgne | fāge | fāh |
| Genitive | fāges | fāgre | fāges |
| Dative | fāgum | fāgre | fāgum |
| Instrumental | fāge | fāgre | fāge |
| Plural | |||
| Nominative | fāge | fāgafāge | fāh |
| Accusative | fāge | fāgafāge | fāh |
| Genitive | fāgra | fāgra | fāgra |
| Dative | fāgum | fāgum | fāgum |
| Instrumental | fāgum | fāgum | fāgum |
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | |||
| Nominative | fāga | fāge | fāge |
| Accusative | fāgan | fāgan | fāge |
| Genitive | fāgan | fāgan | fāgan |
| Dative | fāgan | fāgan | fāgan |
| Instrumental | fāgan | fāgan | fāgan |
| Plural | |||
| Nominative | fāgan | fāgan | fāgan |
| Accusative | fāgan | fāgan | fāgan |
| Genitive | fāgrafāgena | fāgrafāgena | fāgrafāgena |
| Dative | fāgum | fāgum | fāgum |
| Instrumental | fāgum | fāgum | fāgum |
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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