fain

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /feɪn/
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• homophone: fane
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• homophone: feign
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• homophone: foehn
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• rhymes with -eɪn
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• CMU ARPABET: F EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English fain (“enjoyable, pleasing; fond of; glad, pleased; good, suitable; happy, joyful”), from Old English fægen (“happy, joyful, fain”), from Proto-West Germanic *fagan (“glad”), from Proto-Germanic *faganaz (“glad”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“joyful; pretty”). Cognates * Old Norse fagna (“to rejoice”), feginn (“glad, joyful”) * Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 (faginōn, “to rejoice”) * Old High German fehan, gifehan (“to rejoice”) * Old Saxon fagan, fagin

From Middle English fain (“eagerly, willingly; gladly, joyfully”), from fain (adjective): see etymology 1.

* As a Jewish surname, variant of Fein. * As an English surname, variant of Fayne. * As a French surname, from placenames deriving from Latin fanum (“temple”) and Vulgar Latin *fangus (“mud, swamp”).

From Middle English fainen (“to be glad or joyful, rejoice; to make happy, gladden; to welcome; of an animal: to show happiness, as by wagging the tail; to act fawningly or flatteringly”), from Old English fæġnian (“to be glad, rejoice; to celebrate; to be delighted with, applaud; to wish for”), from Proto-West Germanic *faginōn (“to be glad, rejoice; to make glad, gladden”), from Proto-Germanic *faginōną (“to be glad, rejoice”), from *faganaz (“glad”): see further at etymology 1. Doublet of fawn.

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: доволен (dovolen) — glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative
• Czech: spokojený — glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative
• Czech: rád — glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative
• Dutch: tevreden — glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative
• Finnish: tyytyväinen — glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative
• Hungarian: elégedett — glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative
• Macedonian: задоволен (zadovolen) — glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative
• Finnish: juhlia — (Germanic paganism) to celebrate or worship; to offer an oblation which is not a sacrificial blót — see also celebrate, worship