Where does “cheap fake” come from?
cheap fake (English) comes from English deepfake, from English fake, from English feak, from German fegen, from Middle Low German vegen, from Old Dutch fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic faginōn, from Proto-Germanic faginōną.
cheap fake (English): A real video taken out of context or manipulated with cheap tools
Definitions
- A real video taken out of context or manipulated with cheap tools
Ancestry of “cheap fake”, step by step
cheap fake traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English deepfake
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | deepfake | A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else |
| 2 | English | fake | Not real; false, fraudulent; Insincere; Something... |
| 3 | English | feak | Alternative form of feague |
| 4 | German | fegen | to sweep, to polish |
| 5 | Middle Low German | vegen | — |
| 6 | Old Dutch | fegōn | to cleanse |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | faginōn | to gladden, rejoice |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | faginōną | to gladden, rejoice |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pōḱ- | — |
via English cheap
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cheap | Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering; A market;... |
| 2 | Middle English | chep | — |
| 3 | Old English | cēap | cattle, purchase, sale, traffic, business,... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | kaupōną | to buy; trade |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kaupô | innkeeper; merchant |
| 6 | Latin | caupo | Tradesman; Innkeeper, shopkeeper |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kaup- | — |