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fee1 (1121-25)

[ FEW: 3,432b fata; Gdf: 3,739a fé; GdfC: 9,606a fee; TL: 3,1681 fee 1; DEAF: F215 fee; DMF:  fée 1; TLF:  fée; OED:  fay n.2; MED: ; DMLBS: 894b fada ]
faie,  faye,  fed,  fey  

s.

1myth.enchanted being, elf
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  quidat [bien] que [ço] fust fee E qu’ele ne fust de femme nee  3657
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  [...] en la forest [...]. La seut l’en les fees veeir, Se li Breton nos dient veir, E altres mereveilles plusors  ii 122.6387
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  Pur faies: Conjuro vos, elves, per Patrem  ii 224
( c.1390; MS: s.xivex )  Ne sai si jeo sui faie ou chose humein: Tiel est d'amour ma contemplacion  358.22
myth.demon
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Cum alouent endreit un munt, Virent un fed (var. (D: s.xiii1) un malfez) dunt pour unt  1132
2 name (used as a surname)
( 1332 )  Margaret le Fey  Fay
( c.1400 )  Morgne la Faye  faie adj. and n.
mal fé
malfé
faé#1 
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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