fés

See also: fes

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fjæs, from English face.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɛːs/
• Rhymes: -ɛːs

Noun

fés n (genitive singular féss, nominative plural fés)

1. (derogatory) face, mug

Synonyms

• (face, mug): smetti, trýni

Derived terms

• apafés
• Fésbók

See also

• andlit
• kollur
• snápur
• snjáldur
• ófrýnilegur

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch feest (“party; feast; celebration”), from Middle Dutch fêeste, from Old French feste, from Latin fēstum.

Noun

fés

1. (Surinamese) party
2. (Surinamese) feast
3. (Surinamese) celebration

Middle Irish

Etymology

No exact Celtic cognates, but seemingly related to find (“head hair”), which is hypothetically from Proto-Celtic *wendom (“(single) hair”); thus, from Proto-Celtic *wenso-, from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ-so- (“~facial hair”), from the root *wendʰ-, and distantly cognate with Old Prussian wanso (“first beard”), Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ (“moustache”), Ancient Greek ἴονθος (íonthos, “downy hair, first beard; root of hair; eruption on the face, acne”) (if earlier *ϝί-ϝονθος (*wí-wonthos)), and the first element of Old High German wint-brāwa, Middle Dutch wint-brauwe (“eyelash”) (Proto-West Germanic *windabrāwu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɸʲeːs/

Noun

fés

1. lip
   • Metrical Dindshechas iii 50.38

     faídiud fás fri fés

     empty lamentation with the lips

2. body hair

Usage notes

Neither sense is sufficiently well attested to permit either gender or inflection type to be determined. The Modern Irish descendant, however, is a masculine o-stem.

Derived terms

• fésgorm (“bluebearded”)
• fésléne (“hair-shirt”)
• fésóc (“beard”)

Descendants

• Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fés	ḟés	fés pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fés (‘lip’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fés (‘body hair’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ(j)s/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ(j)s/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ(j)ʃ/ [ˈfɛ(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛʃ/

• Homophone: Fez
• Hyphenation: fés

Noun

fés f

1. plural of fé

Spanish

Noun

fés f pl

1. plural of fé