fah

An anglicised spelling of fa.

fah (plural fahs)

1. (music) Alternative form of fa.

fah

1. (New England) Pronunciation spelling of far.

• FHA, HFA, ha'f

• IPA^(key): /fɑːx/

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

fāh

1. guilty; criminal
2. hostile
3. outlawed

• Middle English: fo, foo; fa
  • 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 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃 (faihs). 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

• swātfāh

• Middle English: fou, fawe, fay, fogh, fow, fowe, vouh; fah, fau, foaȝe, foȝ, foh, vaȝe
  • 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
    • → Esperanto: fako
    • → Swedish: fack
    • → Danish: fag
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: fag
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: fag
      • → Icelandic: fag
  • Yiddish: פֿאַך‎ (fakh)