English
feyness
From fey + -ness.
A compound of fey + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *peyk- ‘ill-meaning, bad’
Proto-Germanic *faigijaz ‘cowardly, wicked’
Proto-West Germanic *faigī ‘fey, doomed to die’
Old English fǣġe ‘doomed to die, timid’
Middle English feye ‘fated to die’
English fey
Today it means
noun The state of being fey.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / feyness