fet

Meanings

Verb

• to fetch

Noun

• a piece
• Short form of fetish

Origin

• From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian, probably a conflation of Proto-Germanic *fetaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-; and Proto-Germanic *fatōną, also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten, German fassen. Compare also Icelandic feta. More at fetch.
• Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta, German Fetzen.