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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2151232" data-attributes="member: 26473">You're right - I missed that.Unfortunately I don't have an answer either, at least not a good one - while I'm tempted to say that perhaps Morgan had gender reassignment that the Arthurian saga overlooks, I think it's more likely that it's something to do with the possessive article in Old French.That's interesting as none of the three dictionaires I have sitting around my house nor the one that I checked on-line, including my Webster, has that definition - is this quote taken from the 1912 edition by chance?At least half of the definition you quote here is composed of adjectives: unreal, enchanted. Supernatural can be both a noun and an adjective, so that's inconclusive. But instead of the definition, what part of speech does your dictionary assign to fey? I'd be willing to bet it's adjective, not noun.Again, my take is that where adjectives were made nouns to fill a gap that didn't exist (e.g., water elemental), I have no major issue, but where the word already exists in the language, there's no need to take liberties. That's just ignorant.I think we'll just have to disagree on this one, Turanil.</blockquote>