Where does “fiche” come from?

fiche (French) comes from French ficher, from Old French fichier, from Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre, from Latin fīgō, from Proto-Italic feigʷō — to insert; to fasten.

fiche (French): card; plug; first-person singular present...

Definitions

  1. card; plug; first-person singular present...

Ancestry of “fiche”, step by step

fiche traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French ficher

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchficherto plug in; to drive something in by its point,...
2Old Frenchfichierto pierce
3Vulgar Latin*fīgicāre—
4Latinfīgōto fasten, fix
5Proto-Italicfeigʷōto insert; to fasten

via Middle Dutch visse

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Dutchvissepolecat; nasty
2Latinvissiowiesel; stench

Words derived from “fiche”

Every word from Proto-Italic feigʷō →
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