Where does “fight” come from?

Fight comes from Middle English fighten, from Old English feohtan, from Proto-West Germanic fehtan, from Proto-Germanic fehtaną, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root peḱ-.

fight (English): To contend in physical conflict, either singly or...

Definitions

  1. To contend in physical conflict, either singly or...

Ancestry of “fight”, step by step

fight traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English fighten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishfightenSimple past faght and past participle foghten...
2Old Englishfeohtanto fight
3Proto-West Germanicfehtanto fight
4Proto-Germanicfehtanąto comb, detangle
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpeḱ-to pluck; livestock; wealth

via Middle English fight

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishfightA fight; a combat engagement
2Old Englishfehtwoolen fleece
3Proto-Germanicfahtizwool; fleece
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpéḱtis

Words derived from “fight

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peḱ-
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