faerie

== English == === Alternative forms === færie (archaic, nonstandard) faërie === Etymology === A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene. === Noun === faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries) Archaic spelling of fairy. Realm of the fays, fairyland. ==== Derived terms ==== faeriecore faeriedom faerie godmother faeriekind faerie tale === References === Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary. === Anagrams === feriae == Old French == === Alternative forms === faierie === Etymology === fae +‎ -erie === Noun === faerie f the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays) ==== Derived terms ==== French: féerie, féérie (post-1990 spelling)→ Bulgarian: фее́рия (feérija)→ English: féerie→ German: Feerie→ Polish: feeria→ Romanian: feerie→ Russian: фее́рия (fejérija), феерія (fejerija) — pre-1918 spelling→ Azerbaijani: feeriya→ Kazakh: феерия (feeriä)→ Kyrgyz: феерия (feyeriya)→ Turkmen: feýeriýa→ Uzbek: feyeriya→ Swedish: feeri→ Turkish: feeri → Middle English: faierieEnglish: fairy, fairie, faerie, faeryScots: fairy, faerie, faery