faade

• IPA^(key): /ɸɔːd/

From Middle English wad, from Old English hwæt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwat.

• fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fad, fadere

faade

1. what
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Var faade?

     For what?

• faads

From Middle English faden, from Old French fader.

faade

1. to fade
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:

     F. aake, faace, faade, glaade, laace, maake.

     E. ahce, face, fade, glade, lace, make.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 39 & 13