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語源

Inherited from 古期英語 feohtan, fihtan, from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną; by surface analysis, fight (“fight”) +‎ -en (infinitive suffix).

発音

• IPA: /ˈfixtən/
• IPA: /fɛxt/, /fæi̯xt/ (mostly Northern)

動詞

fighten (third-person singular simple present fighteth, present participle fightynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative faught, past participle foghten)

1. (chiefly intransitive) To fight (engage in combat)
2. (ambitransitive) To battle, contend, or struggle.
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe.

     The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: "To Victory; the Psalm of David". / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.

   1. To struggle against an abstraction or concept.
   2. (intransitive) To clash; to be in turmoil (of the wind, sea, etc.)

Conjugation

関連する語

派生した語

• English: fight
  • Sranan Tongo: feti
  • → German: fighten
• Middle Scots: fecht
  • Scots: fecht, ficht

参照

• “fighten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fight, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “fecht, feicht, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.