fey
adjective
[ feɪ ]
• giving an impression of vague unworldliness or mystery.
• "a rather fey romantic novelist"
• having supernatural powers of clairvoyance.
• fated to die or at the point of death.
Origin:
Old English fǣge (in the sense ‘fated to die soon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veeg and to German feige ‘cowardly’.
