fighten
Middle English
verb
Definitions
- to fight; to battle; to quarrel
Etymology
Inherited from Old English feohtan (fight, combat, strive) 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
- 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
- piefight English
- postfight English
- prefight English
- prizefight English
- refight English
- sexfight English
- snowfight English
- streetfight English
- superfight English
- swordfight English
- *peḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *fehtandz Proto-Germanic
- *fehtaną Proto-Germanic
- befeohtan Old English
- feohtan Old English
- feohtlac Old English
- gefeohtan Old English
- wiþfeohtan Old English
- withfighten Middle English
- fajt Serbo-Croatian
- payts Cebuano
- fehtan Old High German
- *fehtan gmw-pro
- fehtan Old Dutch
- ファイト Korean
- fecht Scots
- paitim Tok Pisin
- feti Sranan Tongo
- faet Pijin