fechten
Low German
/ˈfɛxtn̩/
verb
Definitions
- to fight, to combat, to wage battle
- to fence
- to struggle
- to brawl
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Low German vechten inherited from Old Saxon fehtan (fight) inherited from *fehtan inherited from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (comb, tease, shear, struggle with, struggle, contend with) derived from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (livestock, pluck, joyful, comb, make glad, shear, pluck wool, wool, pretty, be joyful, hair, please oneself, make attractive, make pretty).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peḱ-
Gloss
livestock, pluck, joyful, comb, make glad, shear, pluck wool, wool, pretty, be joyful, hair, please oneself, make attractive, make pretty
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
畜
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- armored combat fight English
- armoured combat fight English
- barfight English
- befight English
- bitch fight English
- bitchfight English
- bullfight English
- bun fight English
- bunfight English
- catfight English
- cockfight English
- dogfight English
- fight English
- fightability English
- fightable English
- fightback English
- fighter English
- fightest English
- fighteth English
- fighting English
- fightwite English
- fightworthy English
- fighty English
- firefight English
- fistfight English
- forfight English
- gunfight English
- infight English
- megafight English
- outfight English
- pecunious English
- piefight English
- postfight English
- prefight English
- prizefight English
- refight English
- sexfight English
- snowfight English
- streetfight English
- superfight English
- swordfight English
- peculiaris Latin
- peculium Latin
- pecunia Latin
- pecuniarius Latin
- pecūliāris Latin
- pecūniārius Latin
- pecūniōsus Latin
- Fechter German
- anfechten German
- ausfechten German
- fechten German
- verfechten German
- aanvechten Dutch, Flemish
- bekvechten Dutch, Flemish
- bevechten Dutch, Flemish
- gevecht Dutch, Flemish
- ontvechten Dutch, Flemish
- stierenvechten Dutch, Flemish
- uitvechten Dutch, Flemish
- vechten Dutch, Flemish
- vechtenstijd Dutch, Flemish
- vechthond Dutch, Flemish
- vechtkwartel Dutch, Flemish
- vechtlust Dutch, Flemish
- vechtmissie Dutch, Flemish
- vechtpartij Dutch, Flemish
- vechtsport Dutch, Flemish
- vechtsporter Dutch, Flemish
- vechtwagen Dutch, Flemish
- voorvechtster Dutch, Flemish
- фехтовать Russian
- πέκω Ancient Greek
- *peḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *peḱten-s Proto-Indo-European
- *peḱu- Proto-Indo-European
- *poḱ-s- Proto-Indo-European
- *poḱsom Proto-Indo-European
- *péḱu Proto-Indo-European
- *pḱtén-s Proto-Indo-European
- fekte Norwegian Bokmål
- *faganaz Proto-Germanic
- *fahaz Proto-Germanic
- *fahsą Proto-Germanic
- *fehtandz Proto-Germanic
- *fehtaną Proto-Germanic
- fekte Norwegian Nynorsk
- feohtan Old English
- पशु Sanskrit
- fighten Middle English
- Færeyjar Old Norse
- dilkfé Old Norse
- fagnaðr Old Norse
- faxaðr Old Norse
- feginn Old Norse
- fága Old Norse
- fágan Old Norse
- fáganarmaðr Old Norse
- fágandi Old Norse
- fágari Old Norse
- færeyingr Old Norse
- færeyskr Old Norse
- félag Old Norse
- félagleikr Old Norse
- fǫgnuðr Old Norse
- fǫxóttr Old Norse
- kvikfé Old Norse
- fajt Serbo-Croatian
- fehtati Serbo-Croatian
- payts Cebuano
- vechten Middle Dutch
- fehtan Old High German
- veg Afrikaans
- 𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌸𐍃 Gothic
- *fehtan gmw-pro
- fehtan Old Dutch
- anvechten Middle Low German
- vechten Middle Low German
- *páćšma Proto-Indo-Iranian
- fehtan Old Saxon
- fækta Old Swedish
- ファイト Korean
- *pektō Proto-Italic
- fiuchta Old Frisian
- paitim Tok Pisin
- fächtje Saterland Frisian
- feti Sranan Tongo
- faet Pijin