פֿאַסן
געפֿאַסט

{GERMANISM}

ETYMOLOGY

ON fata 'to step', Icelandic fatta 'to catch on, take in', OE fatian 'to fetch', Dutch vatten, (dialect) vaten 'to seize, understand', OHG fazzōn 'to load, pack, prepare', MHG vazzen, NHG fassen 'to catch, grasp'; from PGmc ✱fat(t)ōn- 'to fetch' (or ✱fat-ō-) < ✱pod-néh₂- (NEUR); an iterative based on a lost o-grade iterative verb ✱fatan- < ✱pód-e-.
Related: Old Church Slavonic po-pasti 'to fetch'.