fah

fah

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Baissa Fali.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Baissa Fali terms

An anglicised spelling of fa.

fah (plural fahs)

1. (music) Alternative form of fa.

fah

1. Alternative form of faugh.
   • 1957, Henry W. Coray, Son of Tears, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 14:

     He leaned against the fence, pulled a pear from his tunic and bit into it. His face puckered. "No good?" Alypius said. Augustine spat out the pieces. "Fah!" he said.

fah

1. (New England) Pronunciation spelling of far.

• FHA, HFA, ha'f

• IPA^(key): /fɑːx/
• Rhymes: -ɑːx

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

fāh

1. guilty; criminal
2. hostile
3. outlawed
   • 10th century, The Wife's Lament:

     Ā sċyle ġeong mon wesan ġeōmormōd, heard heortan ġeþōht, swylċe habban sċeal blīþe ġebǣro, ēac þon brēostċeare, sinsorgna ġedreag sȳ æt him sylfum ġelong eal his worulde wyn, sȳ ful wīde fāh feorres folclondes, þæt mīn frēond siteð under stānhliþe, storme behrīmed, wine wēriġmōd, wætre beflōwen on drēorsele.

     May the young man always be sad-minded, stern thought of heart, also shall have blithe bearing, also with breast-sorrow, the band of great-worries would be with him all along his world’s mirth, be he fully outlawed in a far folks-land so that my lover sits under a stone cliff, frost-covered by storm, weary-minded lord, overflown by water in the dreary-hall.

• Middle English: fo, foo, fa (Early Middle English)
  • English: foe (obsolete as an adjective)

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz, from Proto-Indo-European *póyḱos; cognate with Old High German fēh, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃 (filufaihs). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ποικίλος (poikílos, “multicoloured”).

The inflected stem fāg- may be because this word ultimately reflects a Proto-Germanic variant *faigaz; alternatively, it may be due to analogy with other adjectives with an alternation between [x] and [ɣ], such as smēag, smēah (“creeping, subtle”).

• fāg

fāh

1. decorated, coloured, shining, adorned
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Stondeð nū on lāste · lēofre duguþe
     weal wundrum hēah, · wyrmlīcum fāh.

     Now a wall stands in the track of dear band,
     by wonders high, with ophidians adorned.

• blōdfāg
• fāgnes
• goldfāh
• swātfāh

• Middle English: fou, fawe, fay, fogh, fow, fowe, vouh, fah, fau, foaȝe, foȝ, foh, vaȝe (Early Middle English)
  • Scots: faw

From Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką, whence also Old English fæc.

fah n

1. wall

• Middle High German: vach
  • German: Fach
    • → English: Fach
    • → Esperanto: fako
    • → Kashubian: fach
    • → Luxembourgish: Fach
    • → Polish: fach
  • Yiddish: פֿאַך (fakh)