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The title says it all: How do you say 'fey' in Esperanto? This is a common English word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey
but is not in Benson, Wells, Revo, Vikivortaro. I would like ALL the meanings translated, just as if the sources cited had themselves included the term.
Assuming you mean the wood-dwelling characters from the Tolkien books, in La Hobito they have been translated as elfo/elfoj by Chris Gledhill.
In Esperanto feo is the gender neutral translation for fay (en), fee (nl), Fee (de), фея (bg). Taking into account that feino for fairy as in the fairy tales is a very constricted context, feo is okay. It is understandable that in translation of La Hobito they did not want to have the "fairy" association. It would be nice to see the translations in other languages.
By the way reta-vortaro.de lists fay the British English spelling.
For the referred definition, of the adjective I did not find anything. One should probably look at other languages first.
The following are not apt:
Since this word does not have a single equivalent in Esperanto, there is not one single translation for this word. Please see the examples below.
If you use the sense of condemned, you would use
kondamnita
If you use the sense of visionary, you would use
viziulo
Since this word has a wide variety of meanings the best approach would be to take each sense of the word and translate it by itself.
