Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To fit, to add. · To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak. · Of pieces of timber: to lie close together. · To fadge.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFitted closely together.
Inherited from Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English fēġan (“to join, unite”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōgijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōgijaną (“to join”), from *fōgō (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Saterland Frisian fougje (“to join, add”), West Frisian foegje (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), German Low German fögen (“to join, add”), German fügen (“to connect”), Old English fōn (“to catch”). More at fang.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfeyenenm
- Inherited-form mentionfēġanang · to join, unite
- Inherited-form mention*fōgijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fōgijanągem-pro · to join
- Derivation mention*peh₂ḱ-ine-pro · to fasten, place
- Cognate mentionfougjestq · to join, add
- Cognate mentionfoegjefy · to join, add
- Cognate mentionvoegennl · to add, place
- Cognate mentionfügende · to connect
- Cognate mentionfōnang · to catch
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