Where does “fat” come from?

fat (French) comes from Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus, from Latin fātus, from Latin for, from Proto-Italic fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂ti — to speak, to be talking.

fat (French): conceited

Definitions

  1. conceited

Ancestry of “fat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitanfat—
2Latinfatuusfoolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,...
3Latinfātusspoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc
4Latinfor"defective"; I speak, talk, say
5Proto-Italicfāōrspeak
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰéh₂tito speak, to be talking

Words derived from “fat”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂ti →Every word from Proto-Italic fāōr →Every word from Latin for →