fetch

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: fĕch
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /fɛt͡ʃ/
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• fŏch Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
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• /fɑt͡ʃ/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
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• rhymes with -ɛtʃ
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• CMU ARPABET: F EH1 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“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], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”). The noun is derived from the verb.

Uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested: * From fetch-life (“(obsolete, rare) a deity, spirit, etc., who guides the soul of a dead person to the afterlife; a psychopomp”). * From the supposed Old English *fæcce (“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; a mare”). * From Old Irish fáith (“seer, soothsayer”).

104 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Polish: aport — the act of fetching
• Irish: taise — apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon
• Albanian: shkoj të marr — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Arabic: جَلَبَ (jalaba) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Bashkir: алып килеү (alıp kilew) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Bashkir: килтереү (kilterew) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Belarusian: прыно́сіць (prynósicʹ) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Belarusian: прыне́сці (prynjésci) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Breton: kerc'hat — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Bulgarian: донасям (donasjam) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Chinese Mandarin: 取 (qǔ) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Ngazidja Comorian: utsashia — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Danish: hente — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Dutch: halen — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Egyptian: ini:n (jnj) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Finnish: hakea — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Finnish: noutaa — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• French: ramener — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• French: rapporter — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• French: aller chercher — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Fwe: têkà — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Galician: buscar — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• German: holen — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Hebrew: הביא — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Hebrew: השיג — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Hungarian: érte megy — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Hungarian: idehoz — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Hungarian: odavisz — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Hungarian: előkerít — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Hungarian: kerít — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Ido: querar — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Italian: riportare — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Italian: recuperare — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Italian: ritrovare — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Italian: ripescare — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Italian: rintracciare — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Japanese: 持ち帰る (mochikaeru) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Khmer: យកមក (yɔɔk mɔɔk) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Korean: 가지고 오다 (gajigo oda) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Latin: petō — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Norman: qu'si — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Norwegian: hente — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Occitan: anar quèrre — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Occitan: anar cercar — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Occitan: raportar — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Polish: aportować — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Polish: zaaportować — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Portuguese: buscar — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Quechua: apamuy — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Romanian: aduce — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Russian: приноси́ть (prinosítʹ) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Russian: принести́ (prinestí) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Russian: ехать (jexatʹ) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Lower Sorbian: hyś pó — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Lower Sorbian: jěś pó — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: traer — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: buscar — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: ir por — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: ir a por — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: recoger — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: ir a buscar — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: ir a traer — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Spanish: ir a recoger — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Swedish: hämta — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Tocharian B: täk- — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Ukrainian: прино́сити (prynósyty) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Ukrainian: принести́ (prynestý) — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Vietnamese: tìm — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Welsh: nôl — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Welsh: cyrchu — to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get
• Bulgarian: продавам се (prodavam se) — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• French: rapporter — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• German: einbringen — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• German: hereinholen — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Hungarian: eladható — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Hungarian: elkel — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Hungarian: elér (árat) — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Hungarian: ára van — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Hungarian: árat ér — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Hungarian: hoz — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Italian: valere — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Italian: racimolare — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Norwegian Bokmål: innbringe — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Spanish: venderse — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Swedish: gå för — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Swedish: inbringa — to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
• Hungarian: megérkezik — nautical: to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing
• Hungarian: (kikötőbe) ér — nautical: to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing
• Hungarian: elér — nautical: to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing
• Irish: sroich — nautical: to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing
• German: schaffen — to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
• German: hinlegen — to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
• German: vollführen — to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
• Hungarian: kelt — to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
• Hungarian: késztet — to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
• Hungarian: kivált — to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
• Italian: raccattare — to cause to come; to bring to a particular state
• German: holen — to reduce; to throw
• German: kriegen — to reduce; to throw
• Hungarian: sóz — to reduce; to throw
• Hungarian: odasóz — to reduce; to throw
• Hungarian: behúz — to reduce; to throw
• Hungarian: leken — to reduce; to throw
• Hungarian: képen töröl — to reduce; to throw