English

fainty

From faint + -y.

Formed from faint + -y

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- ‘to mold’

Latin fingere ‘to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in…’

Old French faint

Middle English faynt ‘weak’

English faint

Today it means

adj feeble; languid; inclined to faint

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