Borrowed fromDanishfjæs, fromEnglishface.
fés n (genitive singularféss,nominative pluralfés)
| 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 |
Borrowed fromDutchfeest(“party; feast; celebration”), fromMiddle Dutchfêeste, fromOld Frenchfeste, fromLatinfēstum.
fés
No exact Celtic cognates, but seemingly related tofind(“head hair”), which is hypothetically fromProto-Celtic*wendom(“(single) hair”); thus, fromProto-Celtic*wenso-,[1] fromProto-Indo-European*wendʰ-so-(“~facial hair”), from the root*wendʰ-, and distantly cognate withOld Prussianwanso(“first beard”),Proto-Slavic*ǫsъ(“moustache”),Ancient Greekἴονθος(íonthos,“downy hair, first beard; root of hair; eruption on the face, acne”) (if earlier*ϝί-ϝονθος(*wí-wonthos)), and the first element ofOld High Germanwint-brāwa,Middle Dutchwint-brauwe(“eyelash”) (Proto-West Germanic*windabrāwu).
fés
Neither sense is sufficiently well attested to permit either gender or inflection type to be determined. The Modern Irish descendant, however, is a masculineo-stem.
| 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.
fés f