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WOTD – 31 October 2009,3 April 2020

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Theverb is derived fromMiddle Englishfecchen(“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms],[2] fromOld Englishfeċċan,fæċċan,feccean(“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant offetian,fatian(“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”)[3] and possibly related toOld Englishfacian,fācian(“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both fromProto-Germanic*fatōną,*fatjaną(“to hold, seize; to fetch”), fromProto-Indo-European*ped-(“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).

The English word is cognate withDutchvatten(“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”),Germanfassen(“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”),Englishfet(“(obsolete) to fetch”),Faroesefata(“to grasp, understand”),Danishfatte(“to grasp, understand”),Swedishfatta(“to grasp, understand”),Icelandicfeta(“to go, step”),West Frisianfetsje(“to grasp”).

Thenoun is derived from the verb.[4]

Verb

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fetch (third-person singular simple presentfetches,present participlefetching,simple past and past participlefetched)

  1. (transitive, ditransitive) Toretrieve; tobear towards; togo andget.
    You have tofetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
    I'm thirsty. Can youfetch me a glass of water, please?
  2. (transitive) Toobtain asprice orequivalent; tosell for.
    • 1849–1861,Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, inThe History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume(please specify |volume=I to V), London:Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,→OCLC:
      Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, andfetched low prices.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought tofetch a fair price.
    • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crudefetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
    If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car shouldfetch about $5,000
  3. (nautical) Tobring orget withinreach bygoing; toreach; toarrive at; toattain; toreach bysailing.
    tofetch headway or sternway
  4. (intransitive) Tobring oneself; tomake headway; toveer; as, to fetch about; to fetch towindward.
  5. (transitive, rare, literary) Totake (abreath); toheave (asigh).
  6. (transitive) Tocause tocome; tobring to a particularstate.
    • 1879,William Barnes,A Witch:
      They couldn'tfetch the butter in the churn.
  7. (obsolete, transitive) Torecall from aswoon; torevive; sometimes withto.
    tofetch a man to
    • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
      Fetching men again when they swoon.
  8. (transitive) Toreduce; tothrow.
    • 1692,Robert South, sermon 28
      The sudden trip in wrestling thatfetches a man to the ground.
  9. (archaic, transitive) Toaccomplish; toachieve; toperform, with certain objects or actions.
    tofetch a compass;  tofetch a leap
  10. (nautical, transitive) Tomake (apump)draw water bypouring water into the top andworking thehandle.
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Expressions
Translations
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to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get—see alsoretrieve
to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
nautical: to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing
to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
to reduce; to throw
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Noun

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fetch (pluralfetches)

  1. (also figuratively) Anact offetching, ofbringing something from adistance.
    1. (computing, specifically) An act of fetchingdata.
      afetch from a cache
  2. Theobject offetching; thesource of anattraction; aforce,propensity, orquality whichattracts.
  3. An area over which wind is blowing (overwater) and generating waves.
    • 1977, Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.),Shore Protection Manual, page29:
      When afetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities.
  4. Thelength of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
    • 1983,Résumés:
      From recently completed radar maps of the Brazilian Amazon I determined the shape, maximumfetch and width and orientation of all the lakes greater than 100 meters across in the floodplain[…]
    • 2006, Andrew Rose, Sandra Rose,'Man Overboard!': The HMAS Nizam Tragedy, Red Rose Books,→ISBN, page48:
      For example, a steady wind of 40-50 kilometres/hour - a Force 6 strong breeze - blowing for 12 hours over an initially calm sea and traversing afetch of 1000 kilometres could produce a significant wave height […]
    • 2010, Yoshimi Goda,Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures, World Scientific,→ISBN, page66:
      Wind waves continue to grow within the fetch area, [...] A graphical wave hindcasting method by means of Wilson's fetch diagrams produced an estimate ofH1/3 = 9.4 m andT1/3 = 12.3 s over thefetch of about 1,800 km on the 7th of April.
  5. Astratagem ortrick; anartifice.
    Synonyms:contrivance,dodge
    • 1665, Robert South, “Jesus of Nazareth proved the true and only promised Messiah”, inTwelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volume 3, published1727:
      Every littlefetch of wit and criticism.
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXIX”, inClarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume(please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […],→OCLC:
      And as to your cant of living single, nobody will believe you. This is one of yourfetches to avoid complying with your duty […].
  6. (uncountable) A game played with adog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
Derived terms
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Translations
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the act of fetching
computing
stratagem

Interjection

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fetch

  1. (Utah)Minced oath forfuck.
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Etymology 2

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Uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:

  • Fromfetch-life(“(obsolete, rare) a deity, spirit, etc., who guides the soul of a dead person to the afterlife; a psychopomp”).[5][6]
  • From the supposedOld English*fæcce(“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; a mare”).[5]
  • FromOld Irishfáith(“seer, soothsayer”).[7]

Noun

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fetch (pluralfetches)

  1. (originally Ireland, dialectal) Theapparition of alivingperson; a person'sdouble, thesight of which is supposedly asign that they arefated todie soon, adoppelganger; awraith(“a person'slikeness seen just after theirdeath; aghost, aspectre”).[from 18th c.]
    • 1842 December –1844 July,Charles Dickens, “The Reader is Brought into Communication with Some Professional Persons, and Sheds a Tear over the Filial Piety of Good Mr. Jonas”, inThe Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London:Chapman and Hall, […], published1844,→OCLC,page236:
      In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next of kin to present her with a fresher set of weeds: an appeal so frequently successful, that the veryfetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp, bonnet and all, might be seen hanging up, at any hour of the day, in at least a dozen of the second-hand clothes shops around Holborn.
    • 1905,Gordon Bottomley,Midsummer Eve, Harting, Petersfield, Hampshire: Pear Tree Press,→OCLC; republished inKing Lear’s Wife, The Crier by Night, The Riding to Lithend, Midsummer Eve, Laodice and Danaë: Plays, London:Constable & Company,1920,→OCLC,page159:
      I think it was afetch. [...] Folk say afetch is seen at its departing / From a cold house whence it shall lead a soul; / But this comes like a child-birth closing in, / And so perchance it does but signify / The consciousness of death that breaks in all.
    • 1921, Sterling Andrus Leonard, “Bibliography of Plays for Reading in High Schools”, in Sterling Andrus Leonard, editor,The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays: […], Boston, Mass.:The Atlantic Monthly Press,→OCLC,page300:
      Several farm maidservants meet to see their future lovers' spirits on Midsummer Eve, but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death.
      A summary of Gordon Bottomley’s playMidsummer Eve.
    • 1971,Richard Carpenter,Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page80:
      "If you're after some money," said the millionaire, "move that cat out of the way." Catweazle shook his head. "Mayhap 'tis afetch." Victor was very taken aback. "Afetch?" he gulped. "That's a witch in the shape of a cat, isn't it?" "Ay," said Catweazle calmly.
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Translations
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apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon
wraith—seewraith

See also

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References

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  1. ^Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, inThe Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4),New York:King's Crown Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ 11, page40.
  2. ^“fecchen,v.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
  3. ^“fetch,v.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press,1895;“fetch1,v.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  4. ^“fetch,n.1”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press,1895;“fetch1,n.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  5. ↑5.05.1“fetch,n.2”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press,1895;“fetch2,n.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  6. ^“† fetch-life,n.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press,1895.
  7. ^William Sayers (2017), “A Hiberno-Norse Etymology for EnglishFetch: ‘Apparition of a Living Person’”, inANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, volume30, number 4, Washington, D.C.:Heldref Publications; Lexington, Ky.:University Press of Kentucky,→DOI,→ISSN,→OCLC, pages205–209.

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