Etymograph

English

fest

Fest comes from German Fest ‘feast, festival, party’, from Latin fēstus ‘of or pertaining to holidays’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁stosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*θēstosreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italic, derivedc. 1500–700 BCE*fēstosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfēstus‘of or pertaining to holidays’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfestum
  6. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350fëst
  7. Germanc. 1650–presentFest‘feast, festival, party’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2005fest

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁stosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*θēstosreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italic, derivedc. 1500–700 BCE*fēstosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfēstus‘of or pertaining to holidays’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfestum
  6. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350fëst
  7. Germanc. 1650–presentFest‘feast, festival, party’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2005fest

Earliest quotation: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: “That same trip would have to go down as…”

A compound of *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’ + *dʰéh₁s ‘god, godhead, deity’

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s ‘god, godhead, deity’

Linked words

through Latin festum

feast, fiesta, fete, fête, 2 more

Today it means

noun A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stos / fest

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