vocht

Meaning

Concepts

vechten

to fight

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vɔxt/

Inherited from Middle Dutch

Inherited from Old Dutch

Cognate with Old English

Cognate with German

In summary

From Middle Dutch vucht, vocht. Substantivized form of an identical adjective, from Old Dutch *fuhti (“humid, wet, damp; marsh-like”), from Proto-West Germanic *fų̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *funhtijaz (“humid, wet, damp”). In Middle Dutch the word gradually shifted from being an adjective to being a noun, with the old adjective being replaced by vochtig (“humid, wet”). Cognate with Old English fuht (“moist, damp”) and German feucht (“wet, humid, damp”).