{"id":21516,"date":"2021-10-14T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21516"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:03:05","slug":"fighting-combs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21516","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Combs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scots word <strong>fecht<\/strong> [f\u025b\u00e7t \/ fe\u02d0\u00e7t \/ fae\u00e7t] means to fight, or to struggle in the battle of life against misfortune, poverty, etc. It comes from the Middle English <em>fighten<\/em> (to fight, battle,  quarrel), from the Old English <em>feohtan<\/em> (to fight), from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*fehtan<\/em> (to fight), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*fehtan\u0105<\/em> (to comb, detangle, struggle (with), fight, shear) from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*pe\u1e31-<\/em> (to pluck, ruffle, tousle, shear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fecht#Scots\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fecht, feicht = a fight<\/li>\n<li>fechtand, feghtand = fighting<\/li>\n<li>fechtar, fechter = one who fights (in battle or in brawls)<\/li>\n<li>fechting, fechtine = engaging in fight or battle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/dost\/fecht_v\">DSL Dictionaries of the Scots Language \/ Dictionars o the Scots Leid<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I learnt about this word on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@misspunnypennie\/video\/7010022502906825990?is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=6995904666995918342\">a video on Tiktok by @misspunnypennie<\/a> &#8211; part of her Scots word of the day series. This particular video is about the word <strong>ilka<\/strong>, which means each or every. The example she gives includes <strong>fecht<\/strong> and <strong>fechter<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAgin ilka sair fecht there&#8217;s a bonnie fechter<br \/>\n(<em>Against every hard fight there&#8217;s a fearless fighter<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, if you prefer to avoid Tiktok, you can find compilations of the Scots Word of Day videos, and Scots-related videos by Miss Punny Pennie (a.k.a. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Len_Pennie\">Len Pennie<\/a>) on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lenniesaurus\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNtTXIIxnGPPi8r1JlIbJgQ\/videos\">YouTube<\/a>. Here&#8217;s Len talking about Scots:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_JSzzFQwIA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I heard the words <strong>fecht<\/strong> and <strong>fechter<\/strong>, I thought they must be related to the Dutch words <strong>vechten<\/strong> [\u02c8v\u025bxt\u0259(n] (to fight, fighting) and <strong>vechter<\/strong> (fighter, warrior), which I learnt recently &#8211; they are indeed related and come from the same Proto-West-Germanic root [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/vechten#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/luc_coekaerts\/37318980671\/in\/photolist-YRLmEP-XQAmdc-YMzDY7-XM59zw-BKLDj1-YP9KVm-YP8Wo7-BKLgTL-YP9FjC-BKKd8w-XM5aiW-BKLHs1-XM5nsW-BKKraU-BKKJuJ-Yt7XUo-BKKqbu-BKKogC-BKKTWu-Yt8HHf-XQzuJ2-YRKnBk-Yt8xJN-YRKwMe-XQA5CK-YMzAXs-BKKCjh-9duAdR-rVo6R3-Q1FLR\" title=\"20170924-153745LC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4424\/37318980671_147cf5901f_z.jpg\" alt=\"20170924-153745LC\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same Proto-West-Germanic root (<em>*fehtan<\/em>) include: <strong>fight<\/strong> in English, <strong>f\u00e4kta<\/strong> (to fence, fight) in Swedish, <strong>fechten<\/strong> (to fence, fight) in German, and <strong>\u0444\u0435\u0445\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c<\/strong> [f\u02b2\u026axt\u0250\u02c8vat\u02b2] (to fence) in Russian, which was borrowed from German. To fence here means to fight with swords rather than to make a fence [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic\/fehtan\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>There is also a Dutch word related to <strong>ilka<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>elk<\/strong>, which means each or every [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/elk#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scots word fecht [f\u025b\u00e7t \/ fe\u02d0\u00e7t \/ fae\u00e7t] means to fight, or to struggle in the battle of life against misfortune, poverty, etc. It comes from the Middle English fighten (to fight, battle, quarrel), from the Old English feohtan (to fight), from the Proto-West Germanic *fehtan (to fight), from the Proto-Germanic *fehtan\u0105 (to comb, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,116,10,26,33,44,45,202,55,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic","category-scots","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21516"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21537,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions\/21537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}