See Faye on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "surname"
},
"expansion": "(surname):",
"name": "sense"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "Faye"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French Faye",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "* (surname): Borrowed from French Faye or other languages.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Fayes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s"
},
"expansion": "Faye (plural Fayes)",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English female given names",
"parents": [
"Female given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English given names",
"parents": [
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "95 5",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English diminutives of female given names",
"parents": [
"Diminutives of female given names",
"Female given names",
"Given names",
"Diminutive nouns",
"Names",
"Nouns",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Lemmas",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "73 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "74 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach, W.Morrow, →ISBN, page 126:",
"text": "Ten years ago, shortly before her sister married her husband, Bobby Gow, she announced to the family that she did not want to be known as Faith any longer; henceforward her name was to be Faye.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A female given name, variant of Fay."
],
"id": "en-Faye-en-name-TKPxZLu4",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
],
[
"Fay",
"Fay#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English surnames",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A surname."
],
"id": "en-Faye-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Faye"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Faye"
},
"expansion": "English: Faye",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: Faye"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Historically most prevalent in Haute-Vienne.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mf"
},
"expansion": "Faye m or f",
"name": "fr-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French surnames",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a surname"
],
"id": "en-Faye-fr-name-v2O7m9sM",
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɛj/"
}
],
"word": "Faye"
}
{
"categories": [
"English diminutives of female given names",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English surnames from French",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "surname"
},
"expansion": "(surname):",
"name": "sense"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "Faye"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French Faye",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "* (surname): Borrowed from French Faye or other languages.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Fayes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s"
},
"expansion": "Faye (plural Fayes)",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English female given names",
"English given names",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach, W.Morrow, →ISBN, page 126:",
"text": "Ten years ago, shortly before her sister married her husband, Bobby Gow, she announced to the family that she did not want to be known as Faith any longer; henceforward her name was to be Faye.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A female given name, variant of Fay."
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
],
[
"Fay",
"Fay#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English surnames"
],
"glosses": [
"A surname."
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Faye"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Faye"
},
"expansion": "English: Faye",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: Faye"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Historically most prevalent in Haute-Vienne.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mf"
},
"expansion": "Faye m or f",
"name": "fr-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French 1-syllable words",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns with multiple genders",
"French proper nouns",
"French surnames",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɛj/"
}
],
"word": "Faye"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Faye meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.