zaherir

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(Anglès)

to criticize severely, harshly (to the point of feeling humiliated or mortified)

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za‧he‧rir

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/θaeˈɾiɾ/

Heretat de Old Spanish

façerir

In summary

Somewhat disputed; according to the Royal Spanish Academy, from Old Spanish façerir, from *fazferir, from faz (“make!, do!”) + ferir (“to hurt”). However, many etymologists have suggested that faz in fazferir could not have turned into za(z), even if it did convert into haz during the Spanish conversion of f to h and have suggested the word comes from Latin subferire (“to censor, reproach”) with za being a common outcome of the Latin sub- prefix, as seen in words such as zabullir (“to submerge”) (from Late Latin subbullīre (“to boil/submerge lighty”)) and zabucar (“to stir liquid”) (from Latin sub- (“below”) + bucca (“mouth”)). Morphologically equivalent to haz (“make!, do!”) + herir (“to hurt”).