fiksen

Borrowed from English fix, from Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer, from fixe (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgere (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Doublet of fixen and fixeren.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪksə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: fik‧sen
• Rhymes: -ɪksən

fiksen

1. (transitive) to fix, to arrange, to get done

• Not to be confused with fixen (“to inject drugs; to fix a game”) and fixeren (“to fixate”).

• fiks, fiksheid