From: Torsten
Message: 68438
Date: 2012-01-28
>I see you have made up your mind to double the number of non-wasteful participants on cybalist. That's nice.
> At 5:41:48 AM on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Trond Engen
> wrote:
>
> > I've seen suggested that English 'fuck' was borrowed from
> > ON *fukka < *fuðka. I don't think it would work as an
> > internal English development from *fuþ-kan- or some such.
>
> This was Piotr's scenario a few years ago:
>
> I'd suggest a derivation ultimately from *peuk^- 'stick,
> punch, puncture', hence various words meaning 'prick(ly),
> spruce' etc. Pokorny gives *peug^- as a variant, but Gk.
> pugmé:, Lat. pugnus 'fist' (if correctly assigned to the
> same etymon) may owe their /g/ to pre-nasal voicing,
> frequent-to-regular in this position (both are thematic
> derivatives of *peuk^-mn. 'boxing' [or the like]). My
> scenario is as follows: a Class IV (originally an
> intransitive fientive?) stem in Germanic developed in the
> following way: *puk^-nó:- > *fukko:- (via nasal
> assimilation); its "etymological meaning" was, more or
> less, 'punch away'. Like many other such verbs in
> Germanic, it soon developed a transitive meaning as well.
> In English, we would end up with *fukko:jan- > OE *fuccan
> > you know what.
>
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