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Fuck#Etymology

Latinheads should see if there's any connection between the words I put in (focus, etc.) and Dutch and English fokken, fuck, etc. lysdexia 05:42, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If you can't support the connection with references, take those words out. Gdr 01:06, 2004 Nov 3 (UTC)

Apart from their (very slight) similarity, what reason do you have for suspecting it? Not that it matters. This part of the article is so speculative as to be practically useless. As you note, the OED points out that not even "ficken" can be shown to be related!Dr Zen 05:33, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm a Latin speaker of a sort (3rd year student) and I can rather definitely attest, from my knowledge of the language and my general knowledge of linguistics, that the word has a singularly Old English etymology, originally from the Low German, as all Old English/Anglo-Saxon words are. I can't remember the Latin for fuck at present and do not anticipate being able to find it in the dictionary in the back of my textbook, but I do recall that it bears no resemblance to an Italic language of any kind. echomikeromeo 03:26, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)