feje

Albanian

Etymology

A plural form of fyell, appearing in a phrase 'fejet e hundës'.

Noun

feje pl

1. nostrils

Related terms

• fyell

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɑːjə], [ˈfɑːɪ]

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

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

1. sweep

Descendants

• → Faroese: feia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

feje

1. definite singular of fej
2. plural of fej

Hungarian

Etymology

fej +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

feje

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

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	feje	—
accusative	fejét	—
dative	fejének	—
instrumental	fejével	—
causal-final	fejéért	—
translative	fejévé	—
terminative	fejéig	—
essive-formal	fejeként	—
essive-modal	fejéül	—
inessive	fejében	—
superessive	fején	—
adessive	fejénél	—
illative	fejébe	—
sublative	fejére	—
allative	fejéhez	—
elative	fejéből	—
delative	fejéről	—
ablative	fejétől	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	fejéé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	fejééi	—

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

feje m (plural fejes)

1. (Canary Islands, León) bundle, wad

Further reading

• “feje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025