{"id":521,"date":"2007-10-22T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/fey\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T17:01:20","slug":"fey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; fey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my correspondents asked me today whether I knew of any suitable translations of the English word <strong>fey<\/strong>, which has a number of meanings, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairy-like aspect or quality<br \/>\n&#8211; Having visionary power; clairvoyant<br \/>\n&#8211; Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell<\/p>\n<p>In Scots, it also means:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fated to die soon.<br \/>\n&#8211; Full of the sense of approaching death.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>feie<\/em>, fated to die, from Old English <em>f\u00e6\u0304ge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/fey\">The Free Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found some translations in other languages on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/fey\">Answers.com<\/a>, though none of them mean quite the same thing as the English word.<\/p>\n<p>I also found the lovely Welsh word, <em>mympwyol<\/em>, which means arbitrary, capricious, faddy, quixotic or whimsical.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of any equivalent words in other languages for fey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my correspondents asked me today whether I knew of any suitable translations of the English word fey, which has a number of meanings, including: &#8211; Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairy-like aspect or quality &#8211; Having visionary power; clairvoyant &#8211; Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell In Scots, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}