Fast: Porovnání verzí

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Common Germanic: OE ''fæst'' corresponds to Old Frisian ''fest''
 
Common Germanic: OE ''fæst'' corresponds to Old Frisian ''fest''
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cognate with Gothic ''fastan'' (to keep, guard, observe)
 
cognate with Gothic ''fastan'' (to keep, guard, observe)
  
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OE-ME - ''fæst''
 
OE-ME - ''fæst''
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- 9th century: firmly fixed, attached to
 
- 9th century: firmly fixed, attached to
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- '''semantic shift''' - widening of the meaning
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- '''semantic shift''' - inversion of the meaning (from the stable meaning "firm" to the dynamic meaning "rapid")

Verze z 26. 11. 2014, 18:40

Origin:[1]

Common Germanic: OE fæst corresponds to Old Frisian fest

cognate with Gothic fastan (to keep, guard, observe)

Forms:[2]

OE-ME - fæst

ME - fest, faste

ModE - fast

Meaning:[3]

- 9th century: firmly fixed, attached to

- 16th century: rapid, quick (from adverb)

- verb - "abstain from food," the verb in the sense "to make fast" continued in ME, but was superseded by fasten


- semantic shift - inversion of the meaning (from the stable meaning "firm" to the dynamic meaning "rapid")