pixie · noun1
- Swedish · derived frompysk“fairy”
- English todaypixie
Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of dialectal Swedish pysk (“fairy”), though the transmission of a Swedish dialect term to southwest Britain is unexplained; perhaps Puck (“Robin Goodfellow”) + -sy; see Wikipedia.
Pixie · proper noun2
From pixie.
Pixie · proper noun3
From its IATA code of PX.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.