English
fash
Fash comes from Latin fastus ‘disdain’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfastus‘disdain’
- Englishearliest quotation 1886fash
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfastus‘disdain’
- Englishearliest quotation 1886fash
Earliest quotation: 1886, – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson: “They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- ‘tip’
far, beard, brush, prod, braid, bristle, borscht, farro, 16 more
Another origin of fash
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰaskyo-‘bundle’uncertain
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfascis‘a faggot, fascine’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfascio‘bundle (of wood)’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfascista‘fascist’
- English1500–presentfascist
- Englishtodayfash
Today it means
verb To worry; to bother, annoy.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fastus / fash