feje

A plural form of fyell, appearing in a phrase 'fejet e hundës'.^[1]

feje pl

1. nostrils

• fyell

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɑːjə], [ˈfɑːɪ]

From Old Danish feye, borrowed from Middle Low German vegen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn.

Cognate with Old High German vegōn, German fegen. Usually associated with Old Norse fága (“to adorn, polish”), Middle Low German vāgen, from Proto-Germanic *fēgōną, but the details are unclear.

feje (imperative fej, infinitive at feje, present tense fejer, past tense fejede, perfect tense har fejet)

1. sweep

• → Faroese: feia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

feje

1. definite singular of fej
2. plural of fej

fej +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛjɛ]
• Hyphenation: fe‧je

feje

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fej

   jó feje van ― to have a good head on one's shoulders

Borrowed from Portuguese feixe, ultimately from Latin fascis. Cognate with English fagot (“bundle of sticks bound together”). Doublet of fajo and haz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfexe/ [ˈfe.xe]
• Rhymes: -exe
• Syllabification: fe‧je

feje m (plural fejes)

1. (Canary Islands, León) bundle, wad

• “feje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024