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Another origin of fang

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ḱ-‘to attach’reconstructed
2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fanhaną‘to catch, capture’reconstructed
3. Old Englishc. 450–1150fōn‘to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake’
4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fangen
5. Englishtodayfang

Another origin of fang

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ḱ-‘to attach’uncertain
2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fanhaną‘to catch, capture’uncertain
3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fangą‘catch, catching, seizure’uncertain
4. Old Norsec. 800–1350fang‘catch’uncertain
5. Old Englishc. 450–1150fang‘grasp, catch’uncertain
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fang
7. Englishtodayfang

From Middle English fang, possibly from Old English fang, feng (‘grasp, catch’); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (‘catch’) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (‘catch, catching, seizure’), from the verb *fanhaną (‘to catch, capture’), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (‘to attach’).1disputed Scholars disagree here; the competing view is quoted as the source gives it. Related also to Latin pangere (‘to solidify, drive in’), Albanian mpij (‘to benumb, stiffen’), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).