fetch

English

/fɛtʃ/

verb

Definitions

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
(nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
(rare) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
(obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
To reduce; to throw.
To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
(nautical) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English fecchen (come for, steal, get and take away, procure, search for, obtain, get and bring back, carry away to kill, fetch) inherited from Old English feċċan inherited from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (hold, seize, fetch, sieze) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (step, foot, walk, fall, stumble), *ped- (step, foot, walk, fall, stumble).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ped-

Gloss

step, foot, walk, fall, stumble

Concept

Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Action/Process

`Kanji`

歩

Emoji

🪜

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