fehtan
Old High German
verb
Definitions
- to fight
Etymology
Inherited from *fehtan inherited from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (comb, tease, shear, struggle with, struggle, contend with).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*fehtaną
Gloss
comb, tease, shear, struggle with, struggle, contend with
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Fechter German
- anfechten German
- ausfechten German
- fechten German
- verfechten German
- фехтовать Russian
- *peḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *fehtandz Proto-Germanic
- *fehtaną Proto-Germanic
- befeohtan Old English
- feohtan Old English
- feohtlac Old English
- gefeohtan Old English
- fighten Middle English
- fehtati Serbo-Croatian
- *fehtan gmw-pro
- fehtan Old Dutch
- fehtan Old Saxon
- fëchte Alemannic German
- fecht Scots
- fiuchta Old Frisian