Post #1195533
2025-12-20 20:36 UTC
@gray17 @resuna
"Etymology
From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen [...] Old English fēsan, fȳsan [...] from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną [...] from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”).
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Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830..."
-- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze
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@gray17@mastodon.social 2025-12-20 21:27
@electropict @resuna yea, 1830 is pretty recent, heh