Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.
From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”). Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*pent-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionfēsenenm
- Inherited-form mentionfēsanang
- Inherited-form mention*funsijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*funsijanągem-pro · to predispose, make favourable; to make ready
- Derivation mention*pent-ine-pro · to go; to walk
- Cognate mentionfūsianosx · to strive
- Cognate mentionfýsanon · to drive, goad; to admonish
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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