From Old French fae, from Medieval Latin fāda. The use of the pronoun appears c. 2013.

fae (comparative more fae, superlative most fae)

1. Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”).

fae (countable and uncountable, plural fae or faes)

1. Alternative spelling of fey (“fairy folk”).
   • 2024, Ana Bidault, Hannah Konetzki, Paule Ledesma, Vera Ma, Eeva Nikunen, Jenna Stark, “Color Happily Ever After”, in Romantasy: A Coloring Book, [Garden City, N.Y.]: Dover Publications, →ISBN, back cover:

     The perfect companion to your favorite book series, this coloring book filled with fire-breathing dragons, dagger-wielding warriors, and fierce and lovely fae will make all your romantasies come true.

gender=neuter

fae (oblique and possessive adjective faer, possessive pronoun faers, reflexive faerself)

1. (rare, nonstandard, neologism) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
   • 2016 September 22, Kim Zarzour, “Language Matters”, in Parkdale Villager, Parkdale, Toronto, ON, page 15:

     Vandikas' parents, for example, haven't yet fully embraced the concept. Faer mother once asked faer to help her understand how fae would like her to talk about faer. Fae was encouraged, but faer mother's use of the pronouns didn't last – maybe, fae said, because it was such a foreign concept to the older generation, "so I just said to myself, she's my mom, I'll deal with it."

   • 2022, Novae Caelum, The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics - Season One‎^[1], unnumbered page:

     Fae had decked faerself in a modest amount of cheap jewelry, faer makeup inexpertly applied.

   • 2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists‎^[2], page 24:

     Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fae.

• faerie

• “fay”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “fay”, in OED Online 👁 Paid subscription required
  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “fay”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• AFE, EAF, AEF, A.E.F., FEA, EFA, A. E. F.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfae/ [ˈfa.e]
• Rhymes: -ae
• Syllabification: fa‧e

fae

1. alternative form of fai

From Proto-Celtic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.

fae

1. woe!

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From ciumăfaie.

fae f (uncountable)

1. jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)

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• fae in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Variant of frae.

• IPA^(key): /feː/

fae

1. (especially Northern Scots) from

   Whaur are ye fae? ― Where are you from?

• “fae”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

fae

1. soft mutation of bae

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.e/

fae

1. (transitive) to feed

This term may or may not specifically refer to feeding children.

• faae

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics
• James Collins (1982), Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[4], Pacific linguistics