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shamefast
English
Etymology
From Middle English shamefast, schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English s?eamfæst, scamfæst (“modest, shy, bashful”), corresponding to shame +? fast.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??e?mf??st/
Adjective
shamefast (comparative more shamefast, superlative most shamefast)
- (archaic) Bashful, modest; shy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid / Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth [...].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 141:
- But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
Derived terms
- shamefaced
- shamefastly
- shamefastness
Middle English
Alternative forms
- shamfast, ssamvest, shomefaste, sceomefest, shomevaste
Etymology
From Old English s?eamfæst, equivalent to shame +? fast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?mfast/
Adjective
shamefast
- modest, humble, virtuous, bashful, shy, timid
Descendants
- English: shamefast
- Scots: schamefast, schamfast
- Yola: shaamfast, shaamfasth
References
- “sh?mefast(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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fasten
English
Etymology
From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastin?n (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast +? -en.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??s?n/, /?f??sn?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fæs?n/, /?fæsn?/
Verb
fasten (third-person singular simple present fastens, present participle fastening, simple past and past participle fastened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.
- May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43
- To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
Derived terms
- fastening
- unfasten
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Stefan, nefast
German
Etymology 1
Middle High German vasten, from Old High German fast?n, from Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fastn?/, /?fast?n/
- Homophone: fassten
- Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten
Verb
fasten (weak, third-person singular present fastet, past tense fastete, past participle gefastet, auxiliary haben)
- to fast
Conjugation
Related terms
- Fasten
- Fastenzeit
- Fastnacht
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa?st?n/
- Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten
Verb
fasten
- inflection of fasen:
- first/third-person plural preterite
- first/third-person plural subjunctive II
Further reading
- “fasten” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- fasta
Noun
fasten m or f
- definite masculine singular of faste
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.
Verb
fast?n
- to fast
Conjugation
Descendants
- Middle High German: vasten
- Cimbrian: bastan
- German: fasten
- Luxembourgish: faaschten
- Yiddish: ???????? (fastn)
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