Wednesday, November 16, 2011

fey ~ strange, otherworldly, dying

az- Four Unposted Letters to Catherine -by Laura Riding / astonishingly original writer / 'fey'
.. a key to the thought of this astonishingly original writer.

libr jour: This is a fey, original document.

/int: 'fey' ~ wkp: a word meaning 'wild or crazy acting', often ascribed to supernatural causes and evidenced by abnormal behavior (cognate to Old Norse feigr) ~ wktnry: Middle English fey (“fated to die”) fr Old English fǣge (“doomed to die, timid”)..Old Saxon fēgi whence Dutch veeg (“doomed, near death”), whence the Icelandic feigur (“doomed to die”) .. magical, fairylike, strange, otherworldly, spellbound.
archaic: about to die. dying.

near to death, upon it.   



A fairy (also fay, fae; from faery, faerie, "realm of the fays")

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