English
vang
Vang comes from Old English fōn ‘to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- ‘to fasten, place’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ph₂ḱ-‘to fasten, place’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fanhaną‘to catch, capture’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150fōn‘to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500vangen
- Englishtodayvang
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ph₂ḱ-‘to fasten, place’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fanhaną‘to catch, capture’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150fōn‘to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500vangen
- Englishtodayvang
Linked words
through Proto-Germanic *fanhaną ‘to catch, capture’
through Old English fōn ‘to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make…’
Another origin of vang
- Old Dutchc. 500–1150fangan
- Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500vangen
- Dutchc. 1500–presentvangen‘to catch’
- Dutch, derivedc. 1500–presentvang‘the brake wheel of a windmill, a brake’
- Englishtodayvang
Today it means
verb To take; undertake for.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- / vang