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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fehtaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to pluck, ruffle, tousle, shear”). Cognate with Latin pectō (“to comb, thrash”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɸex.tɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*fehtaną[1][2]
- to comb, detangle
- to struggle (with), fight
- to shear
Inflection
Conjugation of *fehtaną (strong class 3)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *fehtō | *fehtaų | — | *fehtai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *fihtizi | *fehtaiz | *feht | *fehtazai | *fehtaizau |
| 3rd singular | *fihtidi | *fehtai | *fehtadau | *fehtadai | *fehtaidau |
| 1st dual | *fehtōz | *fehtaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *fehtadiz | *fehtaidiz | *fehtadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *fehtamaz | *fehtaim | — | *fehtandai | *fehtaindau |
| 2nd plural | *fihtid | *fehtaid | *fihtid | *fehtandai | *fehtaindau |
| 3rd plural | *fehtandi | *fehtain | *fehtandau | *fehtandai | *fehtaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *faht | *fuhtį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *fahst | *fuhtīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *faht | *fuhtī | |||
| 1st dual | *fuhtū | *fuhtīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *fuhtudiz | *fuhtīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *fuhtum | *fuhtīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *fuhtud | *fuhtīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *fuhtun | *fuhtīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *fehtandz | *fuhtanaz | |||
Related terms
- *fahsą
- *fahtiz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *fehtan
- Old English: feohtan
- Middle English: fighten, fehten, feghten, feighten, fihhtenn, fiȝten
- Scots: fecht, ficht
- English: fight
- Middle English: fighten, fehten, feghten, feighten, fihhtenn, fiȝten
- Old Frisian: fiuchta, fiuhta
- Saterland Frisian: fjuchte
- West Frisian: fjochtsje, fjuchte
- Old Saxon: fehtan
- Middle Low German: vechten
- Low German: fechten
- → Danish: fægte
- → Norwegian: fekte
- → Saterland Frisian: fächtje
- → Swedish: fäkta
- Middle Low German: vechten
- Old Dutch: fehtan
- Middle Dutch: vechten
- Dutch: vechten
- Afrikaans: veg
- Berbice Creole Dutch: purkaru
- Negerhollands: vekkete, fegete, figiti, fikiti
- → Virgin Islands Creole: fikiti (dated)
- Limburgish: vechte
- West Flemish: vichten
- Dutch: vechten
- Middle Dutch: vechten
- Old High German: fehtan
- Middle High German: vëhten
- Alemannic German: fëchte
- German: fechten
- → Russian: фехтовать (fextovatʹ)
- Middle High German: vëhten
- Old English: feohtan
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*fehtan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 134
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*fextanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 96-97