Lexicon:Modern/Faellei
| Faellei | |
|---|---|
| Stage | Modern CLT |
| Pronunciation | /ˈfaɪ.ɬeɪ/ |
| Part of speech | Noun; Verb |
| Etymology | from Middle faellē, from Faell (to fall); glyph inherited from Proto los |
| Related words | craeshwy, Faell, ell, eiksdei |
Faellei — to disgrace oneself by performing grief. Such a display.
Notes
The failure is in the reception rather than the sincerity. A faellei may be perfectly genuine and still be heard as being more about the sufferer than the thing suffered. What follows is worse than indifference: the manner of it is quoted, imitated, and recognized on sight, and the glyph of four strokes scratched on a doorpost or a wall is enough to invoke it without a word spoken. Sits close to craeshwy and is frequently argued about alongside it. The distinction most hold is that a craeshwy is the loss of composure while a Faellei is the reaching for sympathy and being refused it. A craeshwy ends when the person recovers themselves. A Faellei outlives the grief, the sufferer, and any memory of what was lost. As a verb it is a serious accusation and is not made lightly: to say a man faellei’d at the Thing is to say he asked the assembly to feel for him and was told, in front of everyone, that it would not.