fetian

• fatian, fætian

From Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”). Cognate with Old Frisian fatia (“to fetch”), Old High German fazzōn (“to touch, grasp”) (German fassen), Old Norse fata, feta (“to go, step”) (Icelandic feta). More at foot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ti.ɑn/

fetian

1. to fetch, bring near
2. to obtain, acquire; to induce, bring on
3. to marry, fetch (a wife)

• ġefetian

• feċċan

• Middle English: fetten, feten
  • English: fet (obsolete)
  • Scots: fet