Where does “fuss” come from?

Fuss comes from Danish fjas, a word of unknown origin and meaning.

fuss (English): Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about...

Definitions

  1. Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about...

Ancestry of “fuss”, step by step

fuss traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old High German fuhs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanfuhs—
2Proto-West Germanicfuhsfox
3Proto-Germanicfuhsazfox
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpúḱsosthe tailed one
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpuḱ-tail; press together

via Hungarian fűt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianfűtto heat
2Hungarianfűlikto dry out; to burn out; to get heated

Words derived from “fuss”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European puḱ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European púḱsos →Every word from Proto-Germanic fuhsaz →