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Pilgrim Soul
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I think that fay and fey have different origins. Fey (which can also mean having second sight as well as doomed),is Scots from AS/Icelandic/OHG. Fay is just an anglicised spelling Fee - the french for Fairy. They are homophones not polysemic.
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