In later usage it generally applied to any kind of quality or activity associated with a particular sort of person, as in English knavery, roguery, witchery, wizardry.Faiebecame Modern Englishfay"a fairy"; the word is, however, rarely used, although it is well known as part of the name of the legendary sorceress Morgan Le Fay of Arthurian legend.Faieriebecamefairy, but with that spelling now almost exclusively referring to one of the legendary people, with the same meaning asfay. In the sense "land where fairies dwell", the distinctive and archaic spellingsFaeryandFaerieare often used.Faeryis also used in the sense of "a fairy", and the back-formationfae, as an equivalent or substitute forfayis now sometimes seen.The wordfey, originally meaning "fated to die" or "having forebodings of death" (hence "visionary", "mad", and various other derived meanings) is completely unrelated, being from Old Englishfæge, Proto-Germanic*faigja- and Proto-Indu-European*poikyo-, whereas Latinfatacomes from the Indo-European root *bhã- "speak". Due to the identical pronunciation of the two words, "fay" is sometimes misspelled "fey"